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Royalty

Royalty Meaning & Definition
Royalty Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Royalty?

[n] royal persons collectively; "the wedding was attended by royalty"
[n] payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property; "he received royalties on his book"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Royalty: royal family | royal house | royal line

Related Terms | Find terms related to Royalty:

See Also | Bourbon | female monarch | Habsburg | Hanover | Hanoverian line | Hapsburg | Highness | Hohenzollern | house | House of Hanover | House of Lancaster | House of York | king | Lancaster | Lancastrian line | male monarch | payment | Plantagenet | Plantagenet line | prince | princess | queen | queen regnant | Romanoff | Romanov | Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | Stuart | York

Royalty In Webster's Dictionary

\Roy"al*ty\, n.; pl. {Royalties}. [OF. roialt['e], royault['e], F. royaut['e]. See {Royal}, and cf. {Regality}.] 1. The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty. Royalty by birth was the sweetest way of majesty. --Holyday. 2. The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty. For thus his royalty doth speak. --Shak. 3. An emblem of royalty; -- usually in the plural, meaning regalia. [Obs.] Wherefore do I assume These royalties, and not refuse to reign? --Milton. 4. Kingliness; spirit of regal authority. In his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be fear'd. --Shak. 5. Domain; province; sphere. --Sir W. Scott. 6. That which is due to a sovereign, as a seigniorage on gold and silver coined at the mint, metals taken from mines, etc.; the tax exacted in lieu of such share; imperiality. 7. A share of the product or profit (as of a mine, forest, etc.), reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property. 8. Hence (Com.), a duty paid by a manufacturer to the owner of a patent or a copyright at a certain rate for each article manufactured; or, a percentage paid to the owner of an article by one who hires the use of it.

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