royalty

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: {royalty}, {royal family}, {royal line},
       {royal house}]
    

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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128 Moby Thesaurus words for "royalty":
      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