Stately can be categorized as an adjective.
Adjective |
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| stately - of size and dignity suggestive of a statue | ||
| stately - refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman" | ||
| stately - impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns" | ||
Adverb |
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| stately - In a stately manner. |
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| 1. | adj. | Stately columns. | |
| 2. | adj. | A government official's stately mansion was looted. | |
| 3. | adj. | He walks in a stately manner. | |
| 4. | adj. | He lives in that stately mansion. | |
| 5. | adj. | He was a tall, heavy-looking young man of five-and-twenty. His air was grave and stately, and his manners were very formal. | |
| 6. | adj. | He was a stately man. | |
| 7. | adj. | In the autumn woodcutters always came and felled a few of the largest trees; that was done this year too, and the little Fir Tree, that was now quite well grown, shuddered with fear, for the great stately trees fell to the ground with a crash, and their branches were cut off. | |
| 8. | adj. | The mansion, gone for a century, once more reared its stately height to the raptured vision; every window ablaze with the splendour of many candles. | |
| 9. | adj. | Here, by the goddess and her gifts renowned, / Sidonian Dido built a stately shrine. / All brazen rose the threshold; brass was round / the door-posts; brazen doors on grating hinges sound. | |
| 10. | adj. | Laocoon, Neptune's priest, by lot ordained, / a stately bull before the altar slew. | |
| 11. | adj. | Bared stands the inmost palace, and behold, / the stately chambers and the courts appear / of Priam and the Trojan Kings of old, / and warders at the door with shield an spear. |
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| adj. | |
| Stately columns. |
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| A government official's stately mansion was looted. | |
| He walks in a stately manner. | |
| He lives in that stately mansion. | |
| He was a tall, heavy-looking young man of five-and-twenty. His air was grave and stately, and his manners were very formal. | |
| He was a stately man. | |
| In the autumn woodcutters always came and felled a few of the largest trees; that was done this year too, and the little Fir Tree, that was now quite well grown, shuddered with fear, for the great stately trees fell to the ground with a crash, and their branches were cut off. | |
| The mansion, gone for a century, once more reared its stately height to the raptured vision; every window ablaze with the splendour of many candles. | |
| Here, by the goddess and her gifts renowned, / Sidonian Dido built a stately shrine. / All brazen rose the threshold; brass was round / the door-posts; brazen doors on grating hinges sound. | |
| Laocoon, Neptune's priest, by lot ordained, / a stately bull before the altar slew. | |
| Bared stands the inmost palace, and behold, / the stately chambers and the courts appear / of Priam and the Trojan Kings of old, / and warders at the door with shield an spear. | |