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royalty
/ˈɹɔɪəlti/
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What does royalty mean?
noun
- The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
- People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
- A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right.
More meanings (7)
noun
- The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
- Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
- To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.
- (figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
- (slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
- (historical) The bounds of a royal burgh.
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɹɔɪəlti/
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In the establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty.
A good rule that, and only relaxed by courtesy in favour of the retinue of visiting royalty from a friendly foreign power.
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Instead of, "I swear hatred to royalty," henceforth the new member of a secret society should say, "I swear hatred to property."
Nor must we overlook the fact that a similar belief in the power of royalty has persisted almost to our own day.
You must not suppose that he was in the least disturbed at the idea of finding himself face to face with royalty.