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ROYALTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Royal persons collectively
Example:
the wedding was attended by royalty
Synonyms:
royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("royalty" is a kind of...):
house (aristocratic family line)
Meronyms (members of "royalty"):
Highness ((Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person)
king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
prince (a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign))
princess (a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign))
female monarch; queen; queen regnant (a female sovereign ruler)
queen (the wife or widow of a king)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "royalty"):
Hanover; Hanoverian line; House of Hanover (the English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria))
Habsburg; Hapsburg (a royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806)
Hohenzollern (a German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia)
House of Lancaster; Lancaster; Lancastrian line (the English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose)
Plantagenet; Plantagenet line (the family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485)
Romanoff; Romanov (the Russian imperial line that ruled from 1613 to 1917)
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I)
Stuart (the royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714)
House of York; York (the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property
Example:
he received royalties on his book
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("royalty" is a kind of...):
payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)
Context examples:
If you work in the arts, on fees, commission, or royalty, your checks will increase, and you will have an open road until the end of next June.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Retailed at a dollar, on a royalty of fifteen per cent, it would bring him one hundred and fifty dollars.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
If you work on a commission or royalty basis, you will bring in more money after the Aries new moon of March 24 arrives.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
You will please note that we have increased your royalties to twenty per cent, which is about as high as a conservative publishing house dares go.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Saturn has to go somewhere, so it’s going into your eighth house, which rules commissions, royalties, company benefits, student loans, credit, mortgage, taxes, and other financial matters.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The audacity and unconventionality of the storiettes was a shock to bourgeois morality and prejudice; but when Paris went mad over the immediate translation that was made, the American and English reading public followed suit and bought so many copies that Martin compelled the conservative house of Singletree, Darnley & Co. to pay a flat royalty of twenty-five per cent for a third book, and thirty per cent flat for a fourth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
See if you can work on commission, royalty, bonus, or by earning licensing fees.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The newspapers calculated Martin's royalties.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The full moon will be in luxury-minded Leo, so any event you attend will be beautiful, and you will feel pampered like royalty.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
When Martin asked for an advance on royalties, they wrote that such was not their custom, that books of that nature rarely paid for themselves, and that they doubted if his book would sell a thousand copies.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
