royalist

English

Etymology

royal +‎ -ist

Noun

royalist (plural royalists)

1. A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.
2. A legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
   1. (historical) a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War.
   2. (historical) a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution.
   3. (historical) a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s.

Synonyms

• (supporter of a royal régime): basilean (obsolete)

Antonyms

• republican
• democrat

Related terms

• royalism

Translations

supporter of monarchy

• Bulgarian: монархист m (monarhist)
• Catalan: reialista m or f
• Danish: royalist c
• Esperanto: rojalisto
• French: royaliste (fr) m or f
• Galician: realista m or f
• German: Königstreuer m, Königstreue f, Royalist (de) m, Royalistin (de) f
• Greek: φιλοβασιλικός (el) m (filovasilikós), βασιλόφρων (el) (vasilófron)
• Ido: royalisto (io)
• Irish: ríogaí m
• Italian: realista (it) m or f
• Kazakh: роялист (roälist)
• Korean: 왕정주의자(王政主義者) (wangjeongjuuija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rojalist m

  Nynorsk: rojalist m

• Persian: سلطنت طلب (saltanat talab)
• Polish: rojalista (pl) m, rojalistka f
• Russian: роялист (ru) m (rojalist)
• Spanish: realista (es) m or f
• Swedish: rojalist (sv) c
• Welsh: brenhinwr m, brenhinwraig f

Anagrams

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