royalty
Syllables: roy·al·tyUK/ˈɹɔɪəlti/
royalty noun: the rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
Noun
royalty (countable and uncountable, plural royalties)
- The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
- People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
- Wolferton was an important station on the Kings Lynn-Hunstanton line, which closed in 1969. As the station was convenient for the Sandringham estate, it was regularly patronised by royalty, and royal retiring rooms were provided.2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Wolferton”, in RAIL, number 972, page 61
- 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.
- 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.
- Until the total of advances in that contract has been earned out by royalties from any or all books in that contract, the author will not receive additional royalties.2014, Richard Curtis, Mastering the Business of Writing
- Someone in a privileged position.
- England will have another manager for the next World Cup, Hodgson’s reign will be defined by a result comparable to losing to the United States in the 1950 World Cup and the now-familiar inquest will begin again in a country that likes to see itself as football royalty.2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian, London
- The Biden large-donor scene, where Mr. Katzenberg is treated as royalty himself, has been devastated since Mr. Biden’s debate performance two weeks ago.2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
- The bounds of a royal burgh.
Proper noun capitalized: Royalty
Royalty (plural Royaltys)
- A surname.
royalty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
royalty in Hindi
- royalty
- राज rāj
royalty in Tamil
- உரிமத் தொகை, ஆதாய உரிமை, அரச குடும்பம்
royalty in Marathi
- royalty
- राज rāj
royalty in Urdu
- royalty, kingship
- راج rāj
More languagesFewer languages
- royalty in Bengali
- রাজ raj
- royalty in Telugu
- రాయల్టీ
- royalty in Malayalam
- രാജത്വം, രാജപദവി
- royalty in Kannada
- ಎರೆತನ, ಆಳೊತ್ತು, ಅರಸುತನ, ರಾಜತ್ವ
- royalty in Punjabi
- ਰਾਇਲਟੀ
- royalty in Gujarati
- રોયલ્ટી
- royalty in Odia
- ରାଜକୀଯ଼ତା, ରଯ଼ାଲ୍ଟି
- royalty in Sanskrit
- राज्य rājya
- royalty in Nepali
- रोयल्टी, रायल्टी
- royalty in Arabic
- مَلَكِيَّة malakiyya
- royalty in Indonesian
- royalti
- royalty in Vietnamese
- vương quyền, hoàng tộc
Examples of royalty in a sentence
- I'm still living on the royalties from my first novel.
- Landowners received royalties from the phosphate earnings, and many Nauruans were unemployed by choice.
- For nearly the entire television age, his mother was the visual representation of royalty.
Forms of royalty
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | royalties |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Royaltys |
Origin of royalty
From Middle English royaltee, roialtee, royalte, from Old French roialté, roiauté, realté (compare earlier Old French realted (“realm, kingdom”)), from Vulgar Latin *rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis, equivalent to royal + -ty. Doublet of regality.
Words formed from royalty
Questions about royalty
- What does royalty mean?
- Royalty means the rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
- What is royalty in Hindi?
- Royalty in Hindi is राज (rāj). See Royalty meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is royalty?
- Royalty can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce royalty?
- Royalty is pronounced /ˈɹɔɪəlti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of royalty?
- The plural of royalty is royalties.
Words near royalty in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: royalty (page history and authors); Royalty (page history and authors); राज (Hindi) (page history and authors); royalty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); राज (Marathi) (page history and authors); راج (Urdu) (page history and authors); রাজ (Bengali) (page history and authors); royalty (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); royalty (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); royalty (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); royalty (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); royalty (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); royalty (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); royalty (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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