royalty meaning
EN
[ˈɹɔɪəlti] 
US WRoyalty
- Royalty may refer to:
- Royal family
- Royalties, the payment made (originally to the licensing crown) for a concession of commercial value (e.g. mining rights) or to the owner of a copyright, patent, trademark or know-how for its use
FR royalty 
- NounPLroyalties
- The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
- People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
- 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.
- The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights on his property.
- (by extension) payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
- (poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
- The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
Definition of royalty in English Dictionary
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- fr royalty
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "royalty" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.