royalty

  1. Noun.  The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
  2. Noun.  People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
  3. Noun.  A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right.
  4. Noun.  The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights on his property.
  5. Noun.  (context, by extension) payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
  6. Noun.  (context, poker) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

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