queenly

/ˈkwinli/

Other forms: queenliest; queenlier

If you have a queenly manner, you carry yourself like a queen (or maybe you are one!). Queenly things are fit for a queen, like that tiara you wear on special occasions.

You could also call queenly things (or people) regal or aristocratic. Someone who walks with a queenly bearing holds herself proudly, with excellent posture. And if you go on a queenly vacation, it's pretty luxurious and fancy. The words queenly and queen come from an Old English root, cwen, which means both "female ruler of a state," but also simply "wife."

Definitions of queenly

1. adjective

   having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen
   “queenly propriety”

   “clad in her queenly raiment”

   “Rosetti's queenly portraits of women”

   synonyms: queenlike

   noble

   of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times