| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | loy·al |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  loi  l |
| ADJECTIVE: | 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from Old French leial, loial, from Latin l g lis, legal, from lx, lg-, law. See leg- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | loyal·ly —ADVERB
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