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Dictionary Results For "royalty" [?]/[OPML]
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English

Pronunciation

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Noun

  1. a monarchs or other people of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group
  2. the rank, status, power or authority of a monarch
  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
  4. The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights on his property.
  5. In the Context of payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
  6. In the Context of A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em


References

  • Weisenberg, Michael (2000) 1. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Royalty \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.
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Royalty by birth was the sweetest way of majesty.
--Holyday.
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2. The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the
presence of royalty.
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For thus his royalty doth speak. --Shak.
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3. An emblem of royalty; -- usually in the plural, meaning
regalia. [Obs.]
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Wherefore do I assume
These royalties, and not refuse to reign? --Milton.
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4. Kingliness; spirit of regal authority.
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In his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be fear'd. --Shak.
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5. Domain; province; sphere. --Sir W. Scott.
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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.
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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.
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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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WordNet royalty
n 1: payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource
for the right to use their property; "he received
royalties on his book"
2: royal persons collectively; "the wedding was attended by
royalty" [syn: royal family, royal line, royal house]
Moby Dictionary
FFVs
, ancestry , ancienne noblesse , anointed king , aristocracy ,
aristocraticalness
, avails , baronage , baronetage , birth , blood ,
blue blood
, box office , caliphate , chief , chieftain , chivalry ,
commission
, commissions , compensation , credit , credits ,
crowned head
, cut , czardom , disposable income , distinction ,
dividend
, dividends , dynast , earned income , earnings , elect , elite ,
emperor
, emperorship , empery , empire , gains , gate , gate receipts ,
genteelness
, gentility , get , grand duke , gross , gross income ,
gross receipts
, haut monde , high chief , high life , high society ,
honorable descent
, imperator , imperialism , income , intake ,
kaiserdom
, kaisership , king , king-emperor , kinghood , kinglet ,
kingship
, knightage , lord paramount , majesty , make , monarch , net ,
net income
, net receipts , nobility , noble birth , nobleness ,
noblesse
, noblesse de robe , old nobility , output , overlord ,
paramount
, payment , peerage , percentage , petty king , potentate ,
prince
, prince consort , proceeds , produce , profits , quality ,
queenhood
, queenship , rajaship , rake-off , rank , receipt , receipts ,
receivables
, regnancy , returns , revenue , royal , royal personage ,
royalties
, ruler , share , sovereign , sovereignty , sultanate ,
sultanship
, suzerain , take , take-in , takings , tetrarch ,
the Four Hundred
, the classes , the crown , the throne ,
unearned income
, upper classes , upper crust , upper ten ,
upper ten thousand
, uppercut , yield


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