like royalty
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4.6
- idiom
:
como un rey
- You'll be treated like royalty during your stay at the luxury resort.
- treated like royalty
- live like royalty
- feel like royalty
She was unmasked, waving like royalty to the adoring fans.
- She was unmasked, waving like royalty to the adoring fans.
- And she, she was, to me, just like royalty.
- Just kick back, relax and enjoy diarrhea and a hypnotist show on a floating shopping mall that you can't escape like royalty.
- And it's like those tickets were paid for to like, not like, to be treated like royalty.
Examples
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Now the truly classy places treat you like royalty no matter who you are or what you look like.
Fiction book (1999) -
You'll be treated like royalty.
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- You look like royalty.
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So you have to act like royalty.
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Christian made these arrangements for us personally and ensured we were treated like royalty.
Blog text (16) -
They treated you like royalty in there.
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Mack's primary job was to treat the guests and the Beach Club members like royalty.
Fiction book (2001) -
Her mother made an entrance, sweeping in like royalty entering the grand ballroom.
Fiction book (1992) -
They did a super, super, super duper good job of making us feel like royalty the whole trip, so it's been so fun.
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Who wouldn't feel like royalty on Mamma's purple velvet lounging chaise with the gold cording?
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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6.1
In a very grand or generous way, like at a palace
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6.7
In a way like a king or queen who shows great dignity
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7.3
In a rich and expensive way to impress people
In a way that shows the calm, elegant style of a rich, important person
Antonyms
How Regal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'in a manner befitting a king or queen' is directly derivable from combining 'like' (similar to/as) with 'royalty' (monarchs); the simile clearly signals being treated as royalty, so a learner who knows both words can infer the figurative luxury/respect sense. This comparative pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g., 'como un rey'), making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Like royalty comes from the simple picture of a king or queen with a crown, servants, and a red carpet giving them special care. To be treated like royalty means to get special care and respect, so it now means 'in a very fancy or very respectful way'.