1. royalty

noun. ['ˈrɔɪəlti'] payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property.

Rhymes with Royalty

• disloyalty
• loyalty

Sentences with royalty

1. Noun, singular or mass
Purple as a color means royalty and power.

2. Verb, base form
Fearless and intelligent, the dogs were highly regarded as hunting companions to royalty and assistants to sailors.

Quotes about royalty

1. I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
- Yayoi Kusama

2. Did you mean it... that if Victor did tell...that you'd..."I couldn't finish. I couldn't bring myself to say the words have him killed."I don't have much influence in the upper levels of Moroi royalty, but I have plenty among the guardians who handle the dirty work in our world.""You didn't answer the question. If you'd really do it.""I'd do a lot of things to protect you, Roza.
- Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss

3. Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

2. royalty

noun. ['ˈrɔɪəlti'] royal persons collectively.