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(formal) A title of respect used when addressing a monarch of higher rank than a prince; that is, a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, scene 6:
  
  All our service,
  
  In every point twice done and then double done,
  
  Were poor and single business to contend
  
  Against whose honors deep and broad wherewith
  
  Your Majesty loads our house.
- c. 1845, Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte-Cristo, page 59:
  “ Sire,” said Villefort, “ the rapidity of the event must prove to your majesty that God alone can prevent it, by raising a tempest ; what your majesty is pleased to attribute to me as profound perspicacity is simply owing to chance ; and I have profited by that chance, like a good and devoted servant—that's all. Do not attribute to me more than I deserve, sire, that your majesty may never have occasion to recall the first opinion you have been pleased to form of me.”
(informal) A sarcastic term of address to anyone who is (or is acting) pompous or bossy.

This is the second-person form of address. Verbs used with this pronoun as the subject are conjugated in the third person. The forms used in the third person are His Majesty (for a king or emperor) and Her Majesty (for a queen or empress).

Title of respect

Arabic: جَلَالَتُكَ ‎(jalālatuka) (to masc sg), جَلَالَتُكِ ‎(jalālatuki) (to fem sg)
Armenian: Ձերդ Մեծություն ‎(Jerd Mecutʿyun)
Catalan: Sa Majestat f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 陛下 (zh) ‎(bìxià), 萬歲 (zh), 万岁 (zh) ‎(wànsuì)
Danish: Deres Majestæt
Esperanto: Via Reĝa Moŝto, Via Reĝa Moŝtino
Faroese: Tygara Hátign
Finnish: Teidän Majesteettinne
French: Votre Majesté (fr) f, sire (fr) m
German: Ihre Majestät f
Greek: Μεγαλειότατε (el) m ‎(Megaleiótate), Μεγαλειοτάτη f ‎(Megaleiotáti)
Hebrew: הוד מעלתך m ‎(hod ma'alatkhá)
Icelandic: Yðar Hátign
Italian: Sua Maestà f, Vostra Maestà f
Japanese: 陛下 (ja) ‎(へいか, heika)