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loy⋅al

  [loi-uhl]
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–adjective
1. faithful to one's sovereign, government, or state: a loyal subject.
2. faithful to one's oath, commitments, or obligations: to be loyal to a vow.
3. faithful to any leader, party, or cause, or to any person or thing conceived as deserving fidelity: a loyal friend.
4. characterized by or showing faithfulness to commitments, vows, allegiance, obligations, etc.: loyal conduct.
Origin:
1525–35; < MF, OF loial, le(i)al < L lēgālis legal

Related forms:
loy⋅al⋅ly, adverb
loy⋅al⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. patriotic. 2. See faithful.

Antonyms:
1. faithless, treacherous.
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loy·al   (loi'əl)   
adj.  

  1. Steadfast in allegiance to one's homeland, government, or sovereign.

  2. Faithful to a person, ideal, custom, cause, or duty.

  3. Of, relating to, or marked by loyalty. See Synonyms at faithful.


[French, from Old French leial, loial, from Latin lēgālis, legal, from lēx, lēg-, law; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]
loy'al·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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