royalty, royal family, royal line, royal house
(noun) royal persons collectively; “the wedding was attended by royalty”
royalty
(noun) payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property; “he received royalties on his book”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
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.
(by extension) Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
(figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
(poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
(Scotland, historical) The bounds of a royal burgh.
Royalty (plural Royaltys)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Royalty is the 19924th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1347 individuals. Royalty is most common among White (95.25%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Roy"al*ty, n.; pl. Royalties. Etym: [OF. roialté, royaulté, F. royauté. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 March 2025
(noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
