Royalty vs Royalist - What's the difference?
royalty | royalist |
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
a monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime
a legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
# a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War
# a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution
# a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s
As nouns the difference between royalty and royalist
is that royalty is the rank, status, power or authority of a monarch while royalist is a monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.royalty
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(royalties)References
* Weisenberg, Michael (2000)The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 ----