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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
/ ˈ°ùɔɪə±ô³Ùɪ /
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 ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²Ô´Ç²Ô·°ù´Ç²âa±ô·³Ù²â noun plural nonroyalties
- ±è°ù±ð·°ù´Ç²âa±ô·³Ù²â noun plural preroyalties
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
What do you get British skating royalty as a retirement gift when they have been ice dancing together for 50 years?
But the figures come as a heated debate continues about how much money artists and songwriters receive in royalties.
Yet in New York’s SoHo, where her family settled in the 1980s, she was royalty of another kind.
Dave Roberts officially became Dodger royalty Monday when he agreed to a contract extension that makes him the richest manager in baseball and the rightful heir to the most coveted sports throne in Los Angeles.
“Pamela Love did not receive a royalty payment for this sale,†the suit noted.
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