royalty.
The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
Someone in a privileged position.
A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
The bounds of a royal burgh.
Where this word comes from
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.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.