stately
adjective, state·li·er, state·li·est.
adverb
Origin of stately
Related Words for stately
solemn, imposing, palatial, magnificent, opulent, luxurious, elegant, sumptuous, massive, grand, towering, imperial, ceremonial, gracious, august, ceremonious, conventional, courtly, deliberate, elevatedExamples from the Web for stately
Contemporary Examples of stately
Andrew Borden, his two daughters, Lizzie and Emma, and his wife, Abby, lived in the stately abode at 92 Second Street.
There is no shortage of fine hotels in Montreal and here too, the small and cool mix with the old and stately.
Forty-five years ago Runyon referred to Harold as "my good friend, the tall and stately columnist for the New York Mirror."
Sand has pushed through the stately houses in great waves, pouring through the doorways and filling the rooms.
Two hundred and forty miles west of Manhattan, in a stately red brick building perched atop a hill, the party monster waits.
Historical Examples of stately
Over the octagonal window, too, such draperies fell in stately lines.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
Eudora paced down the sidewalk with a magnificent, stately gait.
The Yates PrideMary E. Wilkins Freeman
Stately priests in long chitons paced to the music of flutes.
Buried Cities, Part 2Jennie Hall
Adv.: wsa fengel geatolc gengde, passed on in a stately manner, 1402.
BeowulfUnknown
People understood that Tellson's, in a stately way, tolerated the odd-job-man.
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens