roy‧al‧ty /ˈrɔɪəlti/
noun (
plural royalties)
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Word Family: noun:
royal,
royalist,
royalty;
adjective:
royal,
royalist;
adverb:
royally]
1. [uncountable] members of a royal family:
At school the other children treated them like royalty.2. [countable usually plural] a payment made to the writer of a book or piece of music depending on how many books etc are sold, or to someone whose idea, invention etc is used by someone else to make money:
the royalties from his latest book royalty payments [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲