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- adjective Not of
royal rank or family - noun One who is not a royal.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But this year, like all the others, Kate was banned—along with every other nonroyal—from spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at Sandringham.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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But this year, like all the others, Kate was banned—along with every other nonroyal—from spending Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at Sandringham.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Imhotep, among the few nonroyal Egyptians known to us from the Old Kingdom, was a Renaissance man at the center of a sweeping Egyptian renaissance.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Imhotep, among the few nonroyal Egyptians known to us from the Old Kingdom, was a Renaissance man at the center of a sweeping Egyptian renaissance.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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It was customary that crown representatives, from princes to nonroyal administrators like Brandon, were given a local source of landed revenues to fund what was, in effect, a satellite, regional court.
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Imhotep, among the few nonroyal Egyptians known to us from the Old Kingdom, was a Renaissance man at the center of a sweeping Egyptian renaissance.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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She was the first nonroyal woman to appear on English currency.
Eminence Without Irony Alexandra Mullen 2008
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One example Junod offers of a nonroyal xivongo is that of the Makaneta, a subclan of the Mazwaya: "Makaneta, n'wa yindlo ya ntima!"
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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The world maps covered in pink splodges, the uniforms and relics of Clive of India and Gordon of Khartoum, the portraits of colonial governors and letters from early inhabitants of Australia, the photographs of royal persons cutting ribbons and nonroyal persons tapping trees, went.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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The world maps covered in pink splodges, the uniforms and relics of Clive of India and Gordon of Khartoum, the portraits of colonial governors and letters from early inhabitants of Australia, the photographs of royal persons cutting ribbons and nonroyal persons tapping trees, went.
Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004
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