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to feel like royalty

to feel like royalty

1 4.7
To get special treatment and attention as if you are very important
  • idiom
: sentir como realeza
  • Who wouldn't feel like royalty on Mamma's purple velvet lounging chaise with the gold cording?

Examples

  • They did a super, super, super duper good job of making us feel like royalty the whole trip, so it's been so fun.

  • I felt like royalty with napkins that matched my skirt.

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  • After an afternoon of being catered to, she felt like royalty.

  • You can spend quite a bit for cheese-and-wine experiences and tours, or share the hefty fee for a standard tasting and feel like royalty for an hour.

  • No matter which performance you choose, you'll feel like royalty as you walk the red carpet and sip Champagne.

Synonyms

to feel like a princess
vsto feel like royalty
  • Informal
3 6.1

Receive very special care and small luxuries

is about high social rank and formal privilege rather than pampering
to feel like the huckleberry above a persimmon
vsto feel like royalty
  • Informal
9.9

Think you are more important or special than other people

is about feeling elevated by rank or privilege rather than simply above others
to feel like a colossus
vsto feel like royalty
8.1

To seem very powerful and important to yourself

is about being treated with special privilege and importance rather than power

Antonyms

ordinary
5 2.0

A person or thing that is not special

unimportance
1 4.6

A situation or thing that is not worth much attention

How Special

to feel like royalty
1 4.7
privileged
123 4.8
special
∞ 1.0
important
157 2.0
noticed
1.0

Surface Forms

feel like royalty infinitive
felt like royalty past
felt like royalty past participle
feeling like royalty present participle
feels like royalty third person singular

Morphology

feel + like + royalty

The meaning 'to feel very special or privileged' is directly and transparently built from 'feel' (experience) + 'like' (as if) + 'royalty' (members of a royal family) — i.e., to feel as if one were royal. This simile/comparative pattern is common across languages and follows standard compositional logic, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will likely infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Feel like royalty comes from the picture of a king or queen being waited on by servants, wearing a crown and sitting on a throne. So, to feel like royalty means to 'feel very special' or 'privileged'.