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 →

2) Royalty is the state of being royal. tree →

3) (money) Royalties are payments made to writers, musicians or inventors each time their work is sold or used. tree →

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 →
• Royalty lived in the castle. tree →
• The author gets royalties from every book sold. tree →
• Kings and queens are royalty. tree →
• The singer earns royalties when songs are played. tree →
• Many people love watching royalty at events. tree →
• Only one sign of royalty remained to him, and that was the signet ring upon his right hand. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «royalty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.