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# royalty

«royalty» in Mova's school dictionary: **kings, queens, princes, princesses and their families** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (royalty — uncountable; a royalty, royalties)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Royalty means kings, queens, princes, princesses and their families. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/#m1)

2) Royalty is the state of being royal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/#m2)

3) (money) Royalties are payments made to writers, musicians or inventors each time their work is sold or used. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it is about the royal family; in everyday life and money, authors get royalties from book sales. Phrases: treated like royalty, royalty payments, pay royalties.

### examples

- The guests were treated like royalty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/#x1)
- Royalty lived in the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/#x2)
- The author gets royalties from every book sold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/#x3)
- Kings and queens are royalty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/#x4)
- The singer earns royalties when songs are played. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/#x5)
- Many people love watching royalty at events. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/#x6)
- Only one sign of royalty remained to him, and that was the signet ring upon his right hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/#x7)

### note

Uncountable for royal people; countable for payments (royalties). In maths problems a royalty is often a percentage of the price.

### In the corpora

- [A royalty is money paid to music makers when their work is used.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «royalty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/royalty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.