Crossword clues for stately
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stately \State"ly\, a. [Compar. Statelier
(st[=a]t"l[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Stateliest.]
Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as,
stately manners; a stately gait. ``The stately homes of
England!''
--Mrs. Hemans. ``Filled with stately temples.''
--Prescott.
Here is a silly stately style indeed!
--Shak.
Syn: Lofty; dignified; majestic; grand; august; magnificent.
Stately \State"ly\, adv.
Majestically; loftily.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"noble, splendid," late 14c., from -ly (1) + state (n.1) in a sense of "costly and imposing display" (such as benefits a person of rank and wealth), attested from early 14c. This sense also is preserved in the phrase to lie in state "to be ceremoniously exposed to view before interment" (1705). Hence also stateroom. Related: Stateliness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of people: regal, dignified; worthy of respect. 2 Of movement: dignified; deliberate, unhurried. 3 imposing; grand, impressive. adv. In a stately manner.
WordNet
adj. impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns" [syn: baronial, imposing, noble]
of size and dignity suggestive of a statue [syn: statuesque]
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: courtly, elegant, formal]
[also: stateliest, statelier]
Usage examples of "stately".
She was stately Setalle Anan, the innkeeper from Ebou Dar with the big golden hoops in her ears and the marriage knife dangling hilt-down into her round cleavage, about as far from an Aes Sedai as could be.
The stately oak reared its branchy head, and the trees and shrubs burst from the surface of the earth.
On Tuesday, the Briefless one entered the Club with a slow and stately step.
It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet.
The stately decor of the basilica was briefly marred by the entrance of pilgrim throngs.
The stately palaces erected by Constantine and his sons, were decorated with many colored marbles, and ornaments of massy gold.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Powhatan and his presents of basin and ewer, bed, bedding, clothes, and such costly novelties, they had been much better well spared than so ill spent, for we had his favor and better for a plain piece of copper, till this stately kind of soliciting made him so much overvalue himself that he respected us as much as nothing at all.
A most stately and sumpteous preparation, in a gorgeous and spacious Court, beyond the Pallaice neere and opposite to the other, and foure square.
Her residence is not in suche a stately Pallaice, as thou seest mee to dwell in.
Giant deer, bedecked with stately racks of immense palmate antlers, grazed alongside aurochs, the splendid wild forerunners of herds of placid domestic cattle, which were nearly as huge as the massive bison that sported such enormous horns.
The panthan turned toward the speaker, seeing a large man, handsome of face and with a manner both stately and dignified.
Robot harvesters sweep through the fields, standing like stately alien sentinels in pools of brilliant light, moving alone, unable to detect the panzer as it sweeps across the land.
Old Newfie, drifting in stately orbit around a planetless brown dwarf, was simply too big and too flimsy to weather a supernova storm at a range of just over a parsec.
Slowly, as the Admiral Stoloff continued braking to orbital speed, the lights enlarged and resolved into the familiar oblates, spheres, and polyhedra of Confederation Navy Base Gagarin, moving slowly in their ponderous, stately waltz.