ROYALTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does royalty mean? 

• ROYALTY (noun)
  The noun ROYALTY has 2 senses:

1. payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property

2. royal persons collectively

  Familiarity information: ROYALTY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROYALTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

he received royalties on his book

Hypernyms ("royalty" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Royal persons collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty

Context example:

the wedding was attended by royalty

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)

 Context examples 

In your case I do not mention royalties, though I am certain that they apply to the change wrought in your mother and father.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mars will also be sending silvery beams to Venus, his lover, a planet that rules your solar eighth house, so commissions, royalties, and other fees may come in now, too.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A majority of their clones are publicly available, free of any royalties, and may be used by anyone agreeing with their guidelines.

(Integrated Molecular Analysis of Genomes and their Expression Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

The tragedy was never brought out in book-form, though Martin pocketed the advance royalties that had been paid.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I tell you this because I feel you can do so well this year working mainly on commission as I did, or from a royalty plus a cash advance (as writers do).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He stated it as a certitude, and before his eyes began to dance the rows of figures of his royalties.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For you, it involved either a random expense you never saw coming or the amount of a commission, royalty, or fee.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Martin remembered the five dollars Gertrude had given him, and his resolve to return it to her a hundred times over; so he wrote for an advance on royalties of five hundred dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you work on a commission or royalty basis (or any other kind of performance-basis), you will start to do much better, and the money will flow in like gold coins from heaven.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On receipt of signed contract we shall be pleased to make you an advance on royalties of five thousand dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)