royalty
IPA: rˈɔɪʌɫti
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.
- The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
- (by extension) Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
- (figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
- (poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
- (Scotland, historical) The bounds of a royal burgh.
- A surname.
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Examples of "royalty" in Sentences
- Inventors get royalty from users.
- The church and the Nazis hated the royalty.
- All of the royalty does not accrue to the writer.
- It regularly featured on the itineraries of royalty.
- The dukes of Candaval have ancestors in the royalty.
- The first the leader of the Vikings is described as royalty.
- The decline of royalty brought about the decline of the kingdom.
- There is no mention of the 3 year unclaimed royalty forefitures.
- The elephant is the emblem of royalty and a sign of rank and power.
- Dignitaries and royalty from around the world stay at the Imperial.