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royalty.

The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɹɔɪəlti/UK
  1. The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.

    countable · uncountable
  2. People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.

    countable · uncountable
  3. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  4. The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.

    countable · uncountable
  5. Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.

    broadly · countable · uncountable
  6. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  7. Someone in a privileged position.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable
  8. A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

    countable · slang · uncountable
  9. The bounds of a royal burgh.

    Scotland · countable · historical · uncountable
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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