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royalty
[ roi-uhl-tee ]
noun
- royal persons collectively.
- royal status, dignity, or power; sovereignty:
to be elevated to royalty.
- a person of royal lineage; member of a royal family.
- royalties, Archaic. prerogatives, rights, or symbolic emblems of a king, queen, or other sovereign.
- a royal domain; kingdom; realm.
- character or quality proper to or befitting a sovereign; nobility.
- the most well-known and admired member or members of a particular field or category:
Her parents are Hollywood royalty. The brand is royalty among champagnes.
- a compensation or portion of the proceeds paid to the owner of a right, as a patent or oil or mineral right, for the use of it.
- an agreed portion of the income from a work paid to its author, composer, etc., usually a percentage of the retail price of each copy sold.
- a royal right, as over minerals, granted by a sovereign to a person or corporation.
- the payment made for such a right.
royalty
/ ˈɔɪəɪ /
noun
- the rank, power, or position of a king or queen
- royal persons collectively
- one who belongs to the royal family
- any quality characteristic of a monarch; kingliness or regal dignity
- a percentage of the revenue from the sale of a book, performance of a theatrical work, use of a patented invention or of land, etc, paid to the author, inventor, or proprietor
royalty
- A payment made for some right or privilege, as when a publisher pays a royalty to an author for the author's granting the publisher the right to sell the author's book.
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz·Dza·ٲ noun plural nonroyalties
- ·Dza·ٲ noun plural preroyalties
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Also among the sporting royalty present will be former England cricketers Sir Andrew Strauss and Sir Alastair Cook, running for the Ruth Strauss Foundation - the charity set up following the death of Strauss' wife.
Heads of state and royalty will travel to Italy for the event.
Part of Willis’ legacy is an incredible 1937 Streamline Moderne house in the San Fernando Valley in California that she bought with the royalties from “Boogie Wonderland.”
Sir Keir received most of his income from his role as an MP and smaller amounts from book royalties and £5,174 of interest on money in a savings account.
do you get British skating royalty as a retirement gift when they have been ice dancing together for 50 years?
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