Definition of "royal line" []

• Royal persons collectively (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Most of the Idonoi leaders were executed, and the royal line was wiped out."
• "It could be that he was using the Messianic mania current at the time in order to reintroduce goddess-worship—after all, even if he were really, as was claimed on his behalf, of the royal line of David, this was hardly an obstacle, for King David himself had been a goddessworshipper, as had King Solomon."
• "Andromache had been “sold” for two talents of silver: not as much as her father had received for the two daughters married into the Hittite royal line and considerably less than the sum promised for the youngest sister, the golden-haired Paleste, upon her wedding to the Trojan hero Hektor."