<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>royal persons collectively.</li><li>royal status, dignity, or power; sovereignty: to be elevated to royalty.</li><li>a person of royal lineage; member of a royal family.</li><li>royalties, Archaic. prerogatives, rights, or symbolic emblems of a king, queen, or other sovereign.</li><li>a royal domain; kingdom; realm.</li><li>character or quality proper to or befitting a sovereign; nobility.</li><li>the most well-known and admired member or members of a particular field or category: Her parents are Hollywood royalty.</li><li>a compensation or portion of the proceeds paid to the owner of a right, as a patent or oil or mineral right, for the use of it.</li><li>an agreed portion of the income from a work paid to its author, composer, etc., usually a percentage of the retail price of each copy sold.</li><li>a royal right, as over minerals, granted by a sovereign to a person or corporation.</li><li>the payment made for such a right.</li></ul>