Definition of royalty in English:

royalty

nounPlural royalties ˈrɔɪəltiˈrɔɪəlti

1mass noun People of royal blood or status.
王族
diplomats, heads of state, and royalty shared tables at the banquet
外交官、国家领导人和王族共同出席了盛宴。
Example sentencesExamples
- By the entrance are various commemorative plaques honouring the visits of recent British royalty and grandest noblemen of Norman roots, such as the Duke of Norfolk.
- This is not to say that there are no descendants of the early Bohemian nobility and royalty remaining today.
- Traditional use ranges from the formal to the informal, occasions to honor royalty and private gatherings of family and friends.
- This was where he threw lavish shikar parties for his guests, mainly other royalty and British dignitaries.
- Rather than rare luxuries for royalty or nobility, well-made gloves were soon to be made available for everyone.
- I think there's an ongoing interest not only the British royal family, but royalty in general.
- The Archduke's houseguests included artists, intellectuals and royalty.
- Because damask table linen was very expensive at this time, it was owned only by royalty, the nobility and the wealthiest merchants.
- I see an engaging and fiery young woman, who on a number of occasions, has shown a regal command equal to any royal in the world, and I have known my share of royalty.
- The feudal past comes alive in the splendid portraits of royalty in full regalia, the photographs of palaces and luxurious interiors, and curiosities such as the Bahawalpur bed.
- The old view, espoused by Aeschylus and Shakespeare and many in between, was that good drama must involve royalty or nobility.
- By the time of the Spanish Conquest, it was reared as a table bird and eaten by royalty.
- The Fur Trade began in earnest in medieval times in Europe, when it involved the hunting of European animals to stock the wardrobes of the nobility and royalty.
- As part of a distinguished tradition of parading in front of royalty, members of the regiment marked the royal visit by wearing oak leaves in their berets.
- Again royalty gathered in grandeur, with trumpets blaring, to witness the baptism of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth.
- As I matured, so did my interest in royalty and, in particular, the British royal family.
- Amanda observed and watched the conversations silently as she ate among the table of royalty.
- The livery company can trace its line back to the 15th century, when its craftsmen made the silver and gold threads used on the embroidered garments worn by royalty and nobility.
- The best-documented death rituals were those associated with royalty or high nobility.
- It was home to chiefs and members of Tahitian royalty in the 19th Century.
Synonyms
stateliness, dignity, magnificence, pomp, solemnity, grandeur, grandness, splendour, resplendence, glory, impressiveness, superbness, awesomeness, awe, loftiness, sublimity, regalness, regality, royalness, kingliness, queenliness, nobility, nobleness, augustness, exaltedness, exaltation, pride
1. 1.1 A member of a royal family.
  王族成员
  she swept by as if she were royalty
  她昂首阔步地走过，仿佛自己是王室成员似的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For instance, each room built for royalty was to fit each member of the court no matter what time of day, holiday, or placement.
  The council decided that since Samantha was royalty, she would be a member of the council.
  If Yeoman treated her employees like family, she treated her customers like royalty.
2. 1.2 The status or power of a king or queen.
  王位；王权；王威
  the brilliance of her clothes, her jewels, all revealed her royalty
  她光彩夺目的衣着和珠宝彰显了她的君主地位。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The title of princess, and later Queen, comes with not only the joys of royalty, but with great responsibility and knowledge.
3. 1.3 The most successful, famous, or highly regarded members of a particular group.
  it's not often you meet real Hollywood royalty, let alone chat to Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman in one day
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the stands only a few clued-in tennis fans are aware they are in the presence of tennis royalty.
  In 1997, Liam and Patsy were rock royalty, crowned on the cover of Vanity Fair in a hail of Cool Britannia bluster.
  Despite any simmering private differences, by the mid-1990 s, the couple had established themselves as Hollywood royalty.
  The group's fourth album, A Night at the Opera, cemented them as music royalty.
  A posse of presidents will mix with rock royalty and an expected 30,000 guests at the grand opening today of the presidential library.
  She's marrying into Hollywood royalty.
  Earlier this year Wilson performed "Smile" in London to a distinguished audience of pop royalty.
  Occupying a space normally reserved for those artists with much higher profiles, Guru and Gang Starr have crossed over from the underground into the pantheon of hip-hop royalty.
  In her 20s, Coppola dabbled in modelling, photography and clothes design, occasionally shooting videos for America's alternative rock royalty.
  He's been the jeweler to kings, emperors, and even Hollywood royalty.
  As the daughter of Ol' Blue Eyes himself and having famously had a fling with the King of Pop, Elvis, Nancy Sinatra is probably about as close as you can get to being music royalty.
  We were breathing the same air as sporting royalty.
  They were on the fringe in the early 80s, but they're virtually rock royalty now.
  We even had a minor brush with country music royalty, although all of us save one missed it.
2A sum paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or for each public performance of a work.
（专利权的）使用费；（著作的）版税；特许使用费
the royalties paid to writers for recorded music
Example sentencesExamples
- Under the terms of the Public Lending Rights scheme, introduced in 1983, authors can receive royalties on the use of their books in libraries in Britain and in several other European countries.
- In the U.S. three major performance rights organizations collect royalties for songwriters, composers and music publishers.
- Authors receive 100 percent royalties on electronic book sales of up to $300 and 40 percent thereafter.
- The book is just €14.99 and all the royalties from the book are being donated to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland so you'll be doing your bit for charity as well as having a good read!
- In the Republic of Ireland, this is a successful national policy; artists can claim a tax exemption for things like book and song royalties.
- We get paid for making records and we get a royalty on what is sold of course, but we're self-financing.
- The impressive popularity of radio and jukeboxes became another profitable source of income for the music industry, thanks to royalties for every public performance of music.
- In international prizes like the Nobel, Booker, Prix Goncourt, National Book Award, the book runs into several editions and millions of copies are sold, and the royalties are high.
- The composer, on the other hand, shares the royalties on copies of his or her music that are sold and fees accruing from performances.
- Paule, who currently serves on the center's board of directors, donates all royalties from his book to the program.
- I've brought you the details of our standard deal for paying the composer's royalties.
- An advance on the book's royalties helped finance the show.
- Compulsory licensing was introduced in response to a Supreme Court decision that deprived composers of royalties.
- Under the 1909 copyright law and its progeny, a song's composers collect royalties for a ‘public performance’ like the radio broadcast of a CD.
- I was virtually unemployed at the time - living off of royalties from my last performance in a commercial.
- But you then have to buy copies from them, albeit at a substantial discount, and they pay you a royalty on each book sold through them.
- It is worth pointing out, by the way, that all the contributors have agreed to donate their author royalties to the Simon Communities of Ireland.
- It seems unlikely that authors will receive outstanding royalties, though some have vowed to contact liquidators in the hopes of seeing some of the money they are owed.
- Annual royalties for composers collected in Europe alone total about €600 million.
- He challenged musicians to pay royalties to original composers so as to appreciate their creativity and talent.
3A royal right (now especially over minerals) granted by the sovereign to an individual or corporation.
（国王授予个人或公司的）权利（尤指矿山开采权）
Example sentencesExamples
- The financial structure of the Empire, with its king's land, crown land, royalties, burdens and gifts, is extremely difficult to disentangle.
- The unstable government has been reliant on Australian troops, police and economic aid, a situation ruthlessly exploited by Canberra in the dispute over royalties and sovereignty.
- But the Nunavut government has no means of obtaining revenue from mineral production royalties - only Ottawa can do that.
- Yunupingu, who is reportedly embroiled in a dispute with family members over the dispersal of mining royalties and grants, gave no details about the mine proposal or how it would be financed.
- The document says Nunavut must work out a new formula financing agreement with the federal government, as well as a devolution agreement on the sharing of natural resource royalties.
Synonyms
monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, princess, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord
1. 3.1 A payment made by a producer of minerals, oil, or natural gas to the owner of the site or of the mineral rights over it.
  （矿山、石油或天然气的）开采权使用费，矿区租用费
  Example sentencesExamples
  The miners pay no royalties on the $1 billion in minerals and metals they dig up each year.
  After the company stopped producing at its giant oil field (the size of Greece) in Southern Sudan over twenty years ago, it continued to pay royalties to maintain its right to come back one day.
  It's been under lease to the mining giant since the late 1960s, and the traditional owners receive royalties, even though the lease predates the Land Rights Act.
  Meanwhile, he has abolished many of the royalties due on North Sea oil and slashed corporation taxes.
  If issues of this nature were being followed to the book, the firm would have been paying taxes to the Government and royalties to the local chiefs.
  After all, we must not forget that finally it is the Crown that owns the minerals themselves, and it is the Crown that gives the mining companies the right to extract those minerals in exchange for royalties, etc.
  Producers pay royalties and severance taxes from oil and gas they take out, corporate income tax on profits, and property taxes on production and transmission line lands.
  With jobs and direct royalties from the Alpine oil field, Nuiqsut has more money, but also more crime, fourfold that of Kaktovik.
  The Department of Mineral Resources has proposed companies involved in mining pay royalties to provincial governments directly.
  The law rubber-stamped what people had already begun to do: enter public land and take minerals without paying a royalty.
  It has ignored the country's demands to put the disbursement of royalties on hold until the sovereignty dispute is settled.
  This amendment granted Alberta and Saskatchewan the right to exercise control over the land, natural resources, and royalties derived from their exploitation.
  They were granted royalties from the leasing of oil, mineral or access rights to a remaining 11 million acres.
  All of this comes not only from the jobs provided by these corporations but also from royalties paid by the industry based on the amount of a given mineral extracted from a province.
  My wife is receiving oil royalties on property that she inherited from her parents.
  While some petroleum and big diamond projects potentially generate huge royalties, most mines, diamonds and gold included, simply do not.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French roialte, from roial (see royal). The sense 'royal right (especially over minerals') (late 15th century) developed into the sense 'payment made by a mineral producer to the site owner' (mid 19th century), which was then transferred to payments for the use of patents and published materials.

Rhymes

loyalty

Definition of royalty in US English:

royalty

nounˈrɔɪəltiˈroiəltē

1People of royal blood or status.
王族
diplomats, heads of state, and royalty shared tables at the banquet
外交官、国家领导人和王族共同出席了盛宴。
Example sentencesExamples
- By the time of the Spanish Conquest, it was reared as a table bird and eaten by royalty.
- This is not to say that there are no descendants of the early Bohemian nobility and royalty remaining today.
- The feudal past comes alive in the splendid portraits of royalty in full regalia, the photographs of palaces and luxurious interiors, and curiosities such as the Bahawalpur bed.
- By the entrance are various commemorative plaques honouring the visits of recent British royalty and grandest noblemen of Norman roots, such as the Duke of Norfolk.
- Amanda observed and watched the conversations silently as she ate among the table of royalty.
- Rather than rare luxuries for royalty or nobility, well-made gloves were soon to be made available for everyone.
- It was home to chiefs and members of Tahitian royalty in the 19th Century.
- The old view, espoused by Aeschylus and Shakespeare and many in between, was that good drama must involve royalty or nobility.
- The best-documented death rituals were those associated with royalty or high nobility.
- Because damask table linen was very expensive at this time, it was owned only by royalty, the nobility and the wealthiest merchants.
- The Archduke's houseguests included artists, intellectuals and royalty.
- I think there's an ongoing interest not only the British royal family, but royalty in general.
- The Fur Trade began in earnest in medieval times in Europe, when it involved the hunting of European animals to stock the wardrobes of the nobility and royalty.
- As I matured, so did my interest in royalty and, in particular, the British royal family.
- I see an engaging and fiery young woman, who on a number of occasions, has shown a regal command equal to any royal in the world, and I have known my share of royalty.
- This was where he threw lavish shikar parties for his guests, mainly other royalty and British dignitaries.
- The livery company can trace its line back to the 15th century, when its craftsmen made the silver and gold threads used on the embroidered garments worn by royalty and nobility.
- Traditional use ranges from the formal to the informal, occasions to honor royalty and private gatherings of family and friends.
- As part of a distinguished tradition of parading in front of royalty, members of the regiment marked the royal visit by wearing oak leaves in their berets.
- Again royalty gathered in grandeur, with trumpets blaring, to witness the baptism of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth.
Synonyms
stateliness, dignity, magnificence, pomp, solemnity, grandeur, grandness, splendour, resplendence, glory, impressiveness, superbness, awesomeness, awe, loftiness, sublimity, regalness, regality, royalness, kingliness, queenliness, nobility, nobleness, augustness, exaltedness, exaltation, pride
1. 1.1 A member of a royal family.
  王族成员
  she swept by as if she were royalty
  她昂首阔步地走过，仿佛自己是王室成员似的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If Yeoman treated her employees like family, she treated her customers like royalty.
  The council decided that since Samantha was royalty, she would be a member of the council.
  For instance, each room built for royalty was to fit each member of the court no matter what time of day, holiday, or placement.
2. 1.2 The status or power of a king or queen.
  王位；王权；王威
  the brilliance of her clothes, her jewels, all revealed her royalty
  她光彩夺目的衣着和珠宝彰显了她的君主地位。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The title of princess, and later Queen, comes with not only the joys of royalty, but with great responsibility and knowledge.
3. 1.3 The most successful, famous, or highly regarded members of a particular group.
  it's not often you meet real Hollywood royalty, let alone chat to Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman in one day
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's been the jeweler to kings, emperors, and even Hollywood royalty.
  Occupying a space normally reserved for those artists with much higher profiles, Guru and Gang Starr have crossed over from the underground into the pantheon of hip-hop royalty.
  We were breathing the same air as sporting royalty.
  We even had a minor brush with country music royalty, although all of us save one missed it.
  As the daughter of Ol' Blue Eyes himself and having famously had a fling with the King of Pop, Elvis, Nancy Sinatra is probably about as close as you can get to being music royalty.
  The group's fourth album, A Night at the Opera, cemented them as music royalty.
  Earlier this year Wilson performed "Smile" in London to a distinguished audience of pop royalty.
  In the stands only a few clued-in tennis fans are aware they are in the presence of tennis royalty.
  She's marrying into Hollywood royalty.
  They were on the fringe in the early 80s, but they're virtually rock royalty now.
  Despite any simmering private differences, by the mid-1990 s, the couple had established themselves as Hollywood royalty.
  In 1997, Liam and Patsy were rock royalty, crowned on the cover of Vanity Fair in a hail of Cool Britannia bluster.
  A posse of presidents will mix with rock royalty and an expected 30,000 guests at the grand opening today of the presidential library.
  In her 20s, Coppola dabbled in modelling, photography and clothes design, occasionally shooting videos for America's alternative rock royalty.
2A sum of money paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or for each public performance of a work.
（专利权的）使用费；（著作的）版税；特许使用费
Example sentencesExamples
- The impressive popularity of radio and jukeboxes became another profitable source of income for the music industry, thanks to royalties for every public performance of music.
- Under the terms of the Public Lending Rights scheme, introduced in 1983, authors can receive royalties on the use of their books in libraries in Britain and in several other European countries.
- In the U.S. three major performance rights organizations collect royalties for songwriters, composers and music publishers.
- Compulsory licensing was introduced in response to a Supreme Court decision that deprived composers of royalties.
- In the Republic of Ireland, this is a successful national policy; artists can claim a tax exemption for things like book and song royalties.
- In international prizes like the Nobel, Booker, Prix Goncourt, National Book Award, the book runs into several editions and millions of copies are sold, and the royalties are high.
- Annual royalties for composers collected in Europe alone total about €600 million.
- Paule, who currently serves on the center's board of directors, donates all royalties from his book to the program.
- The book is just €14.99 and all the royalties from the book are being donated to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland so you'll be doing your bit for charity as well as having a good read!
- He challenged musicians to pay royalties to original composers so as to appreciate their creativity and talent.
- The composer, on the other hand, shares the royalties on copies of his or her music that are sold and fees accruing from performances.
- We get paid for making records and we get a royalty on what is sold of course, but we're self-financing.
- Under the 1909 copyright law and its progeny, a song's composers collect royalties for a ‘public performance’ like the radio broadcast of a CD.
- An advance on the book's royalties helped finance the show.
- It is worth pointing out, by the way, that all the contributors have agreed to donate their author royalties to the Simon Communities of Ireland.
- It seems unlikely that authors will receive outstanding royalties, though some have vowed to contact liquidators in the hopes of seeing some of the money they are owed.
- But you then have to buy copies from them, albeit at a substantial discount, and they pay you a royalty on each book sold through them.
- I've brought you the details of our standard deal for paying the composer's royalties.
- Authors receive 100 percent royalties on electronic book sales of up to $300 and 40 percent thereafter.
- I was virtually unemployed at the time - living off of royalties from my last performance in a commercial.
3A royal right (now especially over minerals) granted by the sovereign to an individual or corporation.
（国王授予个人或公司的）权利（尤指矿山开采权）
Example sentencesExamples
- The unstable government has been reliant on Australian troops, police and economic aid, a situation ruthlessly exploited by Canberra in the dispute over royalties and sovereignty.
- The financial structure of the Empire, with its king's land, crown land, royalties, burdens and gifts, is extremely difficult to disentangle.
- The document says Nunavut must work out a new formula financing agreement with the federal government, as well as a devolution agreement on the sharing of natural resource royalties.
- Yunupingu, who is reportedly embroiled in a dispute with family members over the dispersal of mining royalties and grants, gave no details about the mine proposal or how it would be financed.
- But the Nunavut government has no means of obtaining revenue from mineral production royalties - only Ottawa can do that.
Synonyms
monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, princess, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord
1. 3.1 A payment made by a producer of minerals, oil, or natural gas to the owner of the site or of the mineral rights over it.
  （矿山、石油或天然气的）开采权使用费，矿区租用费
  Example sentencesExamples
  Meanwhile, he has abolished many of the royalties due on North Sea oil and slashed corporation taxes.
  After the company stopped producing at its giant oil field (the size of Greece) in Southern Sudan over twenty years ago, it continued to pay royalties to maintain its right to come back one day.
  With jobs and direct royalties from the Alpine oil field, Nuiqsut has more money, but also more crime, fourfold that of Kaktovik.
  This amendment granted Alberta and Saskatchewan the right to exercise control over the land, natural resources, and royalties derived from their exploitation.
  It's been under lease to the mining giant since the late 1960s, and the traditional owners receive royalties, even though the lease predates the Land Rights Act.
  The Department of Mineral Resources has proposed companies involved in mining pay royalties to provincial governments directly.
  After all, we must not forget that finally it is the Crown that owns the minerals themselves, and it is the Crown that gives the mining companies the right to extract those minerals in exchange for royalties, etc.
  Producers pay royalties and severance taxes from oil and gas they take out, corporate income tax on profits, and property taxes on production and transmission line lands.
  They were granted royalties from the leasing of oil, mineral or access rights to a remaining 11 million acres.
  The miners pay no royalties on the $1 billion in minerals and metals they dig up each year.
  If issues of this nature were being followed to the book, the firm would have been paying taxes to the Government and royalties to the local chiefs.
  My wife is receiving oil royalties on property that she inherited from her parents.
  While some petroleum and big diamond projects potentially generate huge royalties, most mines, diamonds and gold included, simply do not.
  It has ignored the country's demands to put the disbursement of royalties on hold until the sovereignty dispute is settled.
  All of this comes not only from the jobs provided by these corporations but also from royalties paid by the industry based on the amount of a given mineral extracted from a province.
  The law rubber-stamped what people had already begun to do: enter public land and take minerals without paying a royalty.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French roialte, from roial (see royal). The sense ‘royal right (especially over minerals’) (late 15th century) developed into the sense ‘payment made by a mineral producer to the site owner’ (mid 19th century), which was then transferred to payments for the use of patents and published materials.

词汇	royalty
释义	Definition of royalty in English: royalty nounPlural royalties ˈrɔɪəltiˈrɔɪəlti 1mass noun People of royal blood or status. 王族 diplomats, heads of state, and royalty shared tables at the banquet 外交官、国家领导人和王族共同出席了盛宴。 Example sentencesExamples By the entrance are various commemorative plaques honouring the visits of recent British royalty and grandest noblemen of Norman roots, such as the Duke of Norfolk. This is not to say that there are no descendants of the early Bohemian nobility and royalty remaining today. Traditional use ranges from the formal to the informal, occasions to honor royalty and private gatherings of family and friends. This was where he threw lavish shikar parties for his guests, mainly other royalty and British dignitaries. Rather than rare luxuries for royalty or nobility, well-made gloves were soon to be made available for everyone. I think there's an ongoing interest not only the British royal family, but royalty in general. The Archduke's houseguests included artists, intellectuals and royalty. Because damask table linen was very expensive at this time, it was owned only by royalty, the nobility and the wealthiest merchants. I see an engaging and fiery young woman, who on a number of occasions, has shown a regal command equal to any royal in the world, and I have known my share of royalty. The feudal past comes alive in the splendid portraits of royalty in full regalia, the photographs of palaces and luxurious interiors, and curiosities such as the Bahawalpur bed. The old view, espoused by Aeschylus and Shakespeare and many in between, was that good drama must involve royalty or nobility. By the time of the Spanish Conquest, it was reared as a table bird and eaten by royalty. The Fur Trade began in earnest in medieval times in Europe, when it involved the hunting of European animals to stock the wardrobes of the nobility and royalty. As part of a distinguished tradition of parading in front of royalty, members of the regiment marked the royal visit by wearing oak leaves in their berets. Again royalty gathered in grandeur, with trumpets blaring, to witness the baptism of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth. As I matured, so did my interest in royalty and, in particular, the British royal family. Amanda observed and watched the conversations silently as she ate among the table of royalty. The livery company can trace its line back to the 15th century, when its craftsmen made the silver and gold threads used on the embroidered garments worn by royalty and nobility. The best-documented death rituals were those associated with royalty or high nobility. It was home to chiefs and members of Tahitian royalty in the 19th Century. Synonyms stateliness, dignity, magnificence, pomp, solemnity, grandeur, grandness, splendour, resplendence, glory, impressiveness, superbness, awesomeness, awe, loftiness, sublimity, regalness, regality, royalness, kingliness, queenliness, nobility, nobleness, augustness, exaltedness, exaltation, pride 1.1 A member of a royal family. 王族成员 she swept by as if she were royalty 她昂首阔步地走过，仿佛自己是王室成员似的。 Example sentencesExamples For instance, each room built for royalty was to fit each member of the court no matter what time of day, holiday, or placement. The council decided that since Samantha was royalty, she would be a member of the council. If Yeoman treated her employees like family, she treated her customers like royalty. 1.2 The status or power of a king or queen. 王位；王权；王威 the brilliance of her clothes, her jewels, all revealed her royalty 她光彩夺目的衣着和珠宝彰显了她的君主地位。 Example sentencesExamples The title of princess, and later Queen, comes with not only the joys of royalty, but with great responsibility and knowledge. 1.3 The most successful, famous, or highly regarded members of a particular group. it's not often you meet real Hollywood royalty, let alone chat to Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman in one day Example sentencesExamples In the stands only a few clued-in tennis fans are aware they are in the presence of tennis royalty. In 1997, Liam and Patsy were rock royalty, crowned on the cover of Vanity Fair in a hail of Cool Britannia bluster. Despite any simmering private differences, by the mid-1990 s, the couple had established themselves as Hollywood royalty. The group's fourth album, A Night at the Opera, cemented them as music royalty. A posse of presidents will mix with rock royalty and an expected 30,000 guests at the grand opening today of the presidential library. She's marrying into Hollywood royalty. Earlier this year Wilson performed "Smile" in London to a distinguished audience of pop royalty. Occupying a space normally reserved for those artists with much higher profiles, Guru and Gang Starr have crossed over from the underground into the pantheon of hip-hop royalty. In her 20s, Coppola dabbled in modelling, photography and clothes design, occasionally shooting videos for America's alternative rock royalty. He's been the jeweler to kings, emperors, and even Hollywood royalty. As the daughter of Ol' Blue Eyes himself and having famously had a fling with the King of Pop, Elvis, Nancy Sinatra is probably about as close as you can get to being music royalty. We were breathing the same air as sporting royalty. They were on the fringe in the early 80s, but they're virtually rock royalty now. We even had a minor brush with country music royalty, although all of us save one missed it. 2A sum paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or for each public performance of a work. （专利权的）使用费；（著作的）版税；特许使用费 the royalties paid to writers for recorded music Example sentencesExamples Under the terms of the Public Lending Rights scheme, introduced in 1983, authors can receive royalties on the use of their books in libraries in Britain and in several other European countries. In the U.S. three major performance rights organizations collect royalties for songwriters, composers and music publishers. Authors receive 100 percent royalties on electronic book sales of up to $300 and 40 percent thereafter. The book is just €14.99 and all the royalties from the book are being donated to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland so you'll be doing your bit for charity as well as having a good read! In the Republic of Ireland, this is a successful national policy; artists can claim a tax exemption for things like book and song royalties. We get paid for making records and we get a royalty on what is sold of course, but we're self-financing. The impressive popularity of radio and jukeboxes became another profitable source of income for the music industry, thanks to royalties for every public performance of music. In international prizes like the Nobel, Booker, Prix Goncourt, National Book Award, the book runs into several editions and millions of copies are sold, and the royalties are high. The composer, on the other hand, shares the royalties on copies of his or her music that are sold and fees accruing from performances. Paule, who currently serves on the center's board of directors, donates all royalties from his book to the program. I've brought you the details of our standard deal for paying the composer's royalties. An advance on the book's royalties helped finance the show. Compulsory licensing was introduced in response to a Supreme Court decision that deprived composers of royalties. Under the 1909 copyright law and its progeny, a song's composers collect royalties for a ‘public performance’ like the radio broadcast of a CD. I was virtually unemployed at the time - living off of royalties from my last performance in a commercial. But you then have to buy copies from them, albeit at a substantial discount, and they pay you a royalty on each book sold through them. It is worth pointing out, by the way, that all the contributors have agreed to donate their author royalties to the Simon Communities of Ireland. It seems unlikely that authors will receive outstanding royalties, though some have vowed to contact liquidators in the hopes of seeing some of the money they are owed. Annual royalties for composers collected in Europe alone total about €600 million. He challenged musicians to pay royalties to original composers so as to appreciate their creativity and talent. 3A royal right (now especially over minerals) granted by the sovereign to an individual or corporation. （国王授予个人或公司的）权利（尤指矿山开采权） Example sentencesExamples The financial structure of the Empire, with its king's land, crown land, royalties, burdens and gifts, is extremely difficult to disentangle. The unstable government has been reliant on Australian troops, police and economic aid, a situation ruthlessly exploited by Canberra in the dispute over royalties and sovereignty. But the Nunavut government has no means of obtaining revenue from mineral production royalties - only Ottawa can do that. Yunupingu, who is reportedly embroiled in a dispute with family members over the dispersal of mining royalties and grants, gave no details about the mine proposal or how it would be financed. The document says Nunavut must work out a new formula financing agreement with the federal government, as well as a devolution agreement on the sharing of natural resource royalties. Synonyms monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, princess, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord 3.1 A payment made by a producer of minerals, oil, or natural gas to the owner of the site or of the mineral rights over it. （矿山、石油或天然气的）开采权使用费，矿区租用费 Example sentencesExamples The miners pay no royalties on the $1 billion in minerals and metals they dig up each year. After the company stopped producing at its giant oil field (the size of Greece) in Southern Sudan over twenty years ago, it continued to pay royalties to maintain its right to come back one day. It's been under lease to the mining giant since the late 1960s, and the traditional owners receive royalties, even though the lease predates the Land Rights Act. Meanwhile, he has abolished many of the royalties due on North Sea oil and slashed corporation taxes. If issues of this nature were being followed to the book, the firm would have been paying taxes to the Government and royalties to the local chiefs. After all, we must not forget that finally it is the Crown that owns the minerals themselves, and it is the Crown that gives the mining companies the right to extract those minerals in exchange for royalties, etc. Producers pay royalties and severance taxes from oil and gas they take out, corporate income tax on profits, and property taxes on production and transmission line lands. With jobs and direct royalties from the Alpine oil field, Nuiqsut has more money, but also more crime, fourfold that of Kaktovik. The Department of Mineral Resources has proposed companies involved in mining pay royalties to provincial governments directly. The law rubber-stamped what people had already begun to do: enter public land and take minerals without paying a royalty. It has ignored the country's demands to put the disbursement of royalties on hold until the sovereignty dispute is settled. This amendment granted Alberta and Saskatchewan the right to exercise control over the land, natural resources, and royalties derived from their exploitation. They were granted royalties from the leasing of oil, mineral or access rights to a remaining 11 million acres. All of this comes not only from the jobs provided by these corporations but also from royalties paid by the industry based on the amount of a given mineral extracted from a province. My wife is receiving oil royalties on property that she inherited from her parents. While some petroleum and big diamond projects potentially generate huge royalties, most mines, diamonds and gold included, simply do not. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French roialte, from roial (see royal). The sense 'royal right (especially over minerals') (late 15th century) developed into the sense 'payment made by a mineral producer to the site owner' (mid 19th century), which was then transferred to payments for the use of patents and published materials. Rhymes loyalty Definition of royalty in US English: royalty nounˈrɔɪəltiˈroiəltē 1People of royal blood or status. 王族 diplomats, heads of state, and royalty shared tables at the banquet 外交官、国家领导人和王族共同出席了盛宴。 Example sentencesExamples By the time of the Spanish Conquest, it was reared as a table bird and eaten by royalty. This is not to say that there are no descendants of the early Bohemian nobility and royalty remaining today. The feudal past comes alive in the splendid portraits of royalty in full regalia, the photographs of palaces and luxurious interiors, and curiosities such as the Bahawalpur bed. By the entrance are various commemorative plaques honouring the visits of recent British royalty and grandest noblemen of Norman roots, such as the Duke of Norfolk. Amanda observed and watched the conversations silently as she ate among the table of royalty. Rather than rare luxuries for royalty or nobility, well-made gloves were soon to be made available for everyone. It was home to chiefs and members of Tahitian royalty in the 19th Century. The old view, espoused by Aeschylus and Shakespeare and many in between, was that good drama must involve royalty or nobility. The best-documented death rituals were those associated with royalty or high nobility. Because damask table linen was very expensive at this time, it was owned only by royalty, the nobility and the wealthiest merchants. The Archduke's houseguests included artists, intellectuals and royalty. I think there's an ongoing interest not only the British royal family, but royalty in general. The Fur Trade began in earnest in medieval times in Europe, when it involved the hunting of European animals to stock the wardrobes of the nobility and royalty. As I matured, so did my interest in royalty and, in particular, the British royal family. I see an engaging and fiery young woman, who on a number of occasions, has shown a regal command equal to any royal in the world, and I have known my share of royalty. This was where he threw lavish shikar parties for his guests, mainly other royalty and British dignitaries. The livery company can trace its line back to the 15th century, when its craftsmen made the silver and gold threads used on the embroidered garments worn by royalty and nobility. Traditional use ranges from the formal to the informal, occasions to honor royalty and private gatherings of family and friends. As part of a distinguished tradition of parading in front of royalty, members of the regiment marked the royal visit by wearing oak leaves in their berets. Again royalty gathered in grandeur, with trumpets blaring, to witness the baptism of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth. Synonyms stateliness, dignity, magnificence, pomp, solemnity, grandeur, grandness, splendour, resplendence, glory, impressiveness, superbness, awesomeness, awe, loftiness, sublimity, regalness, regality, royalness, kingliness, queenliness, nobility, nobleness, augustness, exaltedness, exaltation, pride 1.1 A member of a royal family. 王族成员 she swept by as if she were royalty 她昂首阔步地走过，仿佛自己是王室成员似的。 Example sentencesExamples If Yeoman treated her employees like family, she treated her customers like royalty. The council decided that since Samantha was royalty, she would be a member of the council. For instance, each room built for royalty was to fit each member of the court no matter what time of day, holiday, or placement. 1.2 The status or power of a king or queen. 王位；王权；王威 the brilliance of her clothes, her jewels, all revealed her royalty 她光彩夺目的衣着和珠宝彰显了她的君主地位。 Example sentencesExamples The title of princess, and later Queen, comes with not only the joys of royalty, but with great responsibility and knowledge. 1.3 The most successful, famous, or highly regarded members of a particular group. it's not often you meet real Hollywood royalty, let alone chat to Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman in one day Example sentencesExamples He's been the jeweler to kings, emperors, and even Hollywood royalty. Occupying a space normally reserved for those artists with much higher profiles, Guru and Gang Starr have crossed over from the underground into the pantheon of hip-hop royalty. We were breathing the same air as sporting royalty. We even had a minor brush with country music royalty, although all of us save one missed it. As the daughter of Ol' Blue Eyes himself and having famously had a fling with the King of Pop, Elvis, Nancy Sinatra is probably about as close as you can get to being music royalty. The group's fourth album, A Night at the Opera, cemented them as music royalty. Earlier this year Wilson performed "Smile" in London to a distinguished audience of pop royalty. In the stands only a few clued-in tennis fans are aware they are in the presence of tennis royalty. She's marrying into Hollywood royalty. They were on the fringe in the early 80s, but they're virtually rock royalty now. Despite any simmering private differences, by the mid-1990 s, the couple had established themselves as Hollywood royalty. In 1997, Liam and Patsy were rock royalty, crowned on the cover of Vanity Fair in a hail of Cool Britannia bluster. A posse of presidents will mix with rock royalty and an expected 30,000 guests at the grand opening today of the presidential library. In her 20s, Coppola dabbled in modelling, photography and clothes design, occasionally shooting videos for America's alternative rock royalty. 2A sum of money paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or for each public performance of a work. （专利权的）使用费；（著作的）版税；特许使用费 Example sentencesExamples The impressive popularity of radio and jukeboxes became another profitable source of income for the music industry, thanks to royalties for every public performance of music. Under the terms of the Public Lending Rights scheme, introduced in 1983, authors can receive royalties on the use of their books in libraries in Britain and in several other European countries. In the U.S. three major performance rights organizations collect royalties for songwriters, composers and music publishers. Compulsory licensing was introduced in response to a Supreme Court decision that deprived composers of royalties. In the Republic of Ireland, this is a successful national policy; artists can claim a tax exemption for things like book and song royalties. In international prizes like the Nobel, Booker, Prix Goncourt, National Book Award, the book runs into several editions and millions of copies are sold, and the royalties are high. Annual royalties for composers collected in Europe alone total about €600 million. Paule, who currently serves on the center's board of directors, donates all royalties from his book to the program. The book is just €14.99 and all the royalties from the book are being donated to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland so you'll be doing your bit for charity as well as having a good read! He challenged musicians to pay royalties to original composers so as to appreciate their creativity and talent. The composer, on the other hand, shares the royalties on copies of his or her music that are sold and fees accruing from performances. We get paid for making records and we get a royalty on what is sold of course, but we're self-financing. Under the 1909 copyright law and its progeny, a song's composers collect royalties for a ‘public performance’ like the radio broadcast of a CD. An advance on the book's royalties helped finance the show. It is worth pointing out, by the way, that all the contributors have agreed to donate their author royalties to the Simon Communities of Ireland. It seems unlikely that authors will receive outstanding royalties, though some have vowed to contact liquidators in the hopes of seeing some of the money they are owed. But you then have to buy copies from them, albeit at a substantial discount, and they pay you a royalty on each book sold through them. I've brought you the details of our standard deal for paying the composer's royalties. Authors receive 100 percent royalties on electronic book sales of up to $300 and 40 percent thereafter. I was virtually unemployed at the time - living off of royalties from my last performance in a commercial. 3A royal right (now especially over minerals) granted by the sovereign to an individual or corporation. （国王授予个人或公司的）权利（尤指矿山开采权） Example sentencesExamples The unstable government has been reliant on Australian troops, police and economic aid, a situation ruthlessly exploited by Canberra in the dispute over royalties and sovereignty. The financial structure of the Empire, with its king's land, crown land, royalties, burdens and gifts, is extremely difficult to disentangle. The document says Nunavut must work out a new formula financing agreement with the federal government, as well as a devolution agreement on the sharing of natural resource royalties. Yunupingu, who is reportedly embroiled in a dispute with family members over the dispersal of mining royalties and grants, gave no details about the mine proposal or how it would be financed. But the Nunavut government has no means of obtaining revenue from mineral production royalties - only Ottawa can do that. Synonyms monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, princess, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord 3.1 A payment made by a producer of minerals, oil, or natural gas to the owner of the site or of the mineral rights over it. （矿山、石油或天然气的）开采权使用费，矿区租用费 Example sentencesExamples Meanwhile, he has abolished many of the royalties due on North Sea oil and slashed corporation taxes. After the company stopped producing at its giant oil field (the size of Greece) in Southern Sudan over twenty years ago, it continued to pay royalties to maintain its right to come back one day. With jobs and direct royalties from the Alpine oil field, Nuiqsut has more money, but also more crime, fourfold that of Kaktovik. This amendment granted Alberta and Saskatchewan the right to exercise control over the land, natural resources, and royalties derived from their exploitation. It's been under lease to the mining giant since the late 1960s, and the traditional owners receive royalties, even though the lease predates the Land Rights Act. The Department of Mineral Resources has proposed companies involved in mining pay royalties to provincial governments directly. After all, we must not forget that finally it is the Crown that owns the minerals themselves, and it is the Crown that gives the mining companies the right to extract those minerals in exchange for royalties, etc. Producers pay royalties and severance taxes from oil and gas they take out, corporate income tax on profits, and property taxes on production and transmission line lands. They were granted royalties from the leasing of oil, mineral or access rights to a remaining 11 million acres. The miners pay no royalties on the $1 billion in minerals and metals they dig up each year. If issues of this nature were being followed to the book, the firm would have been paying taxes to the Government and royalties to the local chiefs. My wife is receiving oil royalties on property that she inherited from her parents. While some petroleum and big diamond projects potentially generate huge royalties, most mines, diamonds and gold included, simply do not. It has ignored the country's demands to put the disbursement of royalties on hold until the sovereignty dispute is settled. All of this comes not only from the jobs provided by these corporations but also from royalties paid by the industry based on the amount of a given mineral extracted from a province. The law rubber-stamped what people had already begun to do: enter public land and take minerals without paying a royalty. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French roialte, from roial (see royal). The sense ‘royal right (especially over minerals’) (late 15th century) developed into the sense ‘payment made by a mineral producer to the site owner’ (mid 19th century), which was then transferred to payments for the use of patents and published materials.
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