Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the status or rank of queen.
- adjective Of, resembling, or befitting a queen; majestic and regal.
- adverb In a royal way; regally.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a queen; befitting a queen; suitable to a queen.
- Like a queen; in the manner of a queen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the
status ,rank orqualities of aqueen ;regal . - adverb In a queenly manner;
regally .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen
Etymologies
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Examples
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On ABC, Tina Brown, the editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, who wrote a biography of Princess Diana, couldn't stop praising the bride's poise and aptitude for her new job, using the word "queenly" to describe the newly named Duchess of Cambridge.
NYT > Home Page By ALESSANDRA STANLEY 2011
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That night was one of many such evenings in queenly Venice.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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There is little that can credibly be called queenly about these creatures, least of all when they display their menacing teeth.
A Formula So Old It's New Again Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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The "queenly" Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope, the unnamed avenger in Charles Augustus Milverton, the intrepid Violet Hunter - plenty of material for filmmakers to draw on!
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And 'queenly' becomes 'witchy' -- a powerful sorceress who can mysteriously bend people's will to do the most horrific acts against nature, man and God.
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Whenever Wodehouse writes about an intimidatingly tall and handsome young woman (usually to contrast her with his heroines, who tend to be small and slight in build), he's parodying the "queenly" heroines of many novels at the time, particularly those of Ethel M. Dell (I've actually read an Ethel M. Dell novel and hope to write about it after the shell-shock wears off).
Wodehouse the Parodist Jaime J. Weinman 2004
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There was something stately and distinguished in her carriage, "queenly" her friends called her, while her critics described her as reserved and distant.
Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982
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There was something stately and distinguished in her carriage, "queenly" her friends called her, while her critics described her as reserved and distant.
Beyond the City Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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There was something stately and distinguished in her carriage, "queenly" her friends called her, while her critics described her as reserved and distant.
Beyond the City 1893
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And his goodwill sunned her wild-grown beauty into majesty, into a kind of queenly richness.
Imaginary Portraits Walter Pater 1866
bilby commented on the word queenly
Through storm, or serenely – whate'er I go through –
God grant I be queenly! God grant I be true!
To suffer in silence, and strike at a sign,
Till all the fair islands of these seas are mine.
- Henry Lawson, 'The Song of Australia'.
*cringe*
August 8, 2009
bilby commented on the word queenly
I have made grief a gorgeous, queenly thing,
And worn my melancholy with an air.
My tears were big as stars to deck my hair,
My silence stunning as a sapphire ring.
- Winifred Welles, 'Exile'.
September 21, 2009