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Definitions: Regalia |
RegaliaNoun1. Paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office). 2. Especially fine or decorative clothing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "regalia" was first used: 1540. (references) |
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Satire | REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and honorable orders as Knights of Adam; Visionaries of Detectable Bosh; the Ancient Order of Modern Troglodytes; the League of Holy Humbug; the Golden Phalanx of Phalangers; the Genteel Society of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians; Knights and Ladies of the Yellow Dog; the Oriental Order of Sons of the West; the Blatherhood of Insufferable Stuff; Warriors of the Long Bow; Guardians of the Great Horn Spoon; the Band of Brutes; the Impenitent Order of Wife-Beaters; the Sublime Legion of Flamboyant Conspicuants; Worshipers at the Electroplated Shrine; Shining Inaccessibles; Fee-Faw-Fummers of the inimitable Grip; Jannissaries of the Broad-Blown Peacock; Plumed Increscencies of the Magic Temple; the Grand Cabal of Able-Bodied Sedentarians; Associated Deities of the Butter Trade; the Garden of Galoots; the Affectionate Fraternity of Men Similarly Warted; the Flashing Astonishers; Ladies of Horror; Cooperative Association for Breaking into the Spotlight; Dukes of Eden; Disciples Militant of the Hidden Faith; Knights-Champions of the Domestic Dog; the Holy Gregarians; the Resolute Optimists; the Ancient Sodality of Inhospitable Hogs; Associated Sovereigns of Mendacity; Dukes-Guardian of the Mystic Cess-Pool; the Society for Prevention of Prevalence; Kings of Drink; Polite Federation of Gents-Consequential; the Mysterious Order of the Undecipherable Scroll; Uniformed Rank of Lousy Cats; Monarchs of Worth and Hunger; Sons of the South Star; Prelates of the Tub-and-Sword. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RegaliaSynonyms: array (n), finery (n), raiment (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Scepter | Noun: scepter, regalia, caduceus; Mercury's rod, Mercury's staff, Mercury's wand; rod of empire, mace, fasces, wand; staff, staff of office; baton, truncheon; flag; (insignia); ensign of authority, emblem of authority, badge of authority, insignia of authority. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Regalia |
| English words defined with "regalia": crown jewels ♦ Regalia of a church, Regalian ♦ war paint. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "regalia": Mason. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Regalia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (regalia, royal things), Portuguese (freedom fighters, prerogative, privelege, privilege). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shrimp boats in full regalia for the Blessing of the Fleet.Credit: Fisheries. |  | Unidentified man, about 60 years of age, in Masonic regalia, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left, seated at table with tablecloth.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Regalia and equipment of the cowboy. Cattle ranch near Spur, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Goldes shaman priest in his regalia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Regalia" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.90% of the time. "Regalia" is used about 91 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.9% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.1% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "regalia": he was in full regalia ♦ regalia of a church. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
academic regalia | 81 |
regalia | 65 |
masonic regalia | 49 |
american native regalia | 33 |
graduation regalia | 18 |
fenaroli regalia | 17 |
ss regalia | 17 |
dominion regalia | 12 |
indian regalia | 10 |
king regalia | 9 |
native regalia | 6 |
american dance native regalia | 5 |
oes regalia | 5 |
nazi regalia | 4 |
columbus knight regalia | 4 |
regalia royal | 4 |
cherokee regalia | 4 |
akitas regalia | 3 |
american native pattern regalia | 3 |
fisher regalia | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "regalia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shenjë mbretërore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حقوق الملك, الشعارات الملكية, رموز الدالة على الملكية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скъпи дрехи, разкошни дрехи, царски права и привилегии, кралски права и привилегии, голяма пура. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | královské odznaky, korunovaèní klenoty (crown jewels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نشانهاوعلاءم پادشاهی , لباس شاهانه یافاخر, امتیازات سلطنتی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prérogatives royales, insignes royaux, droit régalien, accoutrement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Insignien (badge, insignia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εμβλήματα (insignia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | סימ י מלכות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felségjogok, koronaékszerek, koronázási jelvények. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | insegne reali, abiti da cerimonia (robe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | egaliaray privilégios reais. (various references) регалия. (various references) regalija, kraljevski znaci, kraljevske povlastice. (various references) insignias reales. (various references) regalier. (various references) เครื่องหมายหรือเสื้อผ้าแส"งตำแหน่ง ยศหรือขั้น. (various references) rütbe sembolleri, kurumsal işaretler, krallık sembolleri, gözalıcı kıyafet, farmasonluk simgeleri. (various references) регалії, багатий одяг. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | regalia. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Regalia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: argalia, Fragaria, Rabalais, raggatip, Ramalina, realgar, realia, regail, regait, Regala, regalias, regalis, regalla, regalo, reglue, reguli, Rehavia, rigali, rigalis, rigelian, Rigelnik, rinalhi, Rogalin, Rogaly, Rogatica, rogavit, Rubaiya, Rumailah, Rusalka, rusalki, Rwegasira, Tregalan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "regalia" (pronounced rigā"lyu) |
| 4 | -ā" l y u | azalea, Bacchanalia, paraphernalia. |
| 3 | -l y u | dahlia, genitalia, magnolia, memorabilia, pedophilia. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: aerial, aglare, alegar, argali, glaire, laager, realia. | |
-2 letters: agile, agria, algae, areal, argal, argil, argle, ariel, galea, glair, glare, graal, grail, laari, lager, large, liger, regal. | |
-3 letters: agar, ager, alae, alar, alga, area, aria, aril, earl, egal, gala, gale, gear, girl, glia, ilea, lair, lari, lear, liar, lier, lira, lire, raga, rage, ragi, raia, rail, rale, real, rial, riel, rile. | |
-4 letters: aal, aga, age, ail, air, ala, ale, are, ear, era, erg, gae, gal, gar, gel, gie, ire, lag, lar, lea, leg, lei, lie, rag, reg, rei, ria, rig. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ag, ai, al, ar, el, er, la, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: galleria, gasalier, geranial. | |
+2 letters: algebraic, antiglare, armigeral, cartilage, gallerias, gasaliers, geranials, laagering, neuralgia, tailgater. | |
+3 letters: algebraist, appareling, aspergilla, cartilages, galvanizer, inarguable, lacerating, lateraling, laureating, managerial, martingale, neuralgias, palavering, paraplegia, paraplegic, plagiaries, plagiarise, plagiarize, reavailing, rigamarole, tailgaters. | |
+4 letters: acromegalic, algebraists, allegorical, altercating, alternating, apparelling, archangelic, archegonial, archipelago, berascaling, calendaring, categorical, cavaliering, egalitarian, elaborating, equiangular, farthingale, flagrancies, gallantries, galvanizers, lateralling, lawbreaking, magisterial, maltreating, marginalize, martingales, organizable, panegyrical, paralleling, paraplegias, paraplegics, plagiarised, plagiarises, plagiarized, plagiarizer, plagiarizes, plantigrade, racewalking, reanalyzing, reassailing, rebalancing, retaliating, revaluating, rigamaroles, strategical, talebearing, triangulate. | |
+5 letters: accelerating, acromegalics, acromegalies, adulterating, agreeability, agrichemical, agrochemical, alliterating, ameliorating, angularities, archipelagic, archipelagos, argillaceous, calligrapher, caramelising, caramelizing, caterwauling, deflagrating, deflagration, diagrammable, disagreeable, disagreeably, egalitarians, engarlanding, epigraphical, exhilarating, extralogical, farthingales, generational, geographical, grandiflorae, interglacial, irrefragable, irrefragably, lateralizing, lawbreakings, managerially, marginalized, marginalizes, marriageable, paleographic, parallelling, plagiarizers, plantigrades, preinaugural, premalignant, quadriplegia, racewalkings, reallocating, recanalizing, reescalating, reevaluating, revalidating, tabernacling, talebearings, triangulated, triangulates, ultraheating, wallpapering, wallydraigle. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 67 61 6C 69 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . --. .- .-.. .. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100111 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e g a l i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0067 0061 006C 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52717367787567 |
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