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Majesty

pronouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈmæd͡ʒ.ə.sti//
  • United Kingdom//ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.sti//
  • United States//ˈmæd͡ʒ.ə.sti//

a term of address for royalty and imperiality

pronoun

  1. 1

    a term of address for royalty and imperiality

    His/Her/Your Majesty

Etymology

From an alternative capitalization of English majesty, from Middle English maieste, mageste, from Old French majesté, from Latin māiestās, derived from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂s (“great”).

Forms

plural
Majesties
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).