| 单词 | royalty |
| 释义 | royalty (once / 553 pages) 1n 2n Royalty is a good word for describing a family of kings, queens, princes, and princesses. If you are in the music business, you may expect a payment, or royalty every time your song is played. How's that for royal treatment? The noun royalty means a group of royals, or kings and their extended families. Queen Elizabeth of England is a member of Britain's royalty, for example. You can also use royalty to describe the payment a writer receives whenever her book is sold, or that a musician gets when his song is played in a grocery store. The word comes from the Latin regalis, "regal," which in turn comes from rex, "king." WORD FAMILYroyalty: royalties USAGE EXAMPLESThe status of Hollywood royalty was almost automatically conferred upon them. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) They include Hawaiian royalty, Inuit children, Aboriginal diplomats, a Native American missionary and Pocahontas herself. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Perhaps now, he agreed, they might excavate the word, slap it on signage and claim, with evidence, that it means something about royalty. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1 n royal persons collectively 2the wedding was attended by royalty Syn|Hypo|Hyper royal family, royal house, royal line Hanover, Hanoverian line, House of Hanover the English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria) Habsburg, Hapsburga royal German family that provided rulers for several European states and wore the crown of the Holy Roman Empire from 1440 to 1806 Hohenzollerna German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia House of Lancaster, Lancaster, Lancastrian linethe English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461; its emblem was a red rose Plantagenet, Plantagenet linethe family name of a line of English kings that reigned from 1154 to 1485 Romanoff, Romanovthe Russian imperial line that ruled from 1613 to 1917 Saxe-Coburg-Gothathe name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I Stuartthe royal family that ruled Scotland from 1371-1714 and ruled England from 1603 to 1649 and again from 1660 to 1714 House of York, Yorkthe English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose house aristocratic family line n payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property he received royalties on his book Hyper payment a sum of money paid or a claim discharged |
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