royalty vs sovereign

royalty

noun
  • The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch. 

  • Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc. 

  • The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property. 

  • Someone in a privileged position. 

  • A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em. 

  • The bounds of a royal burgh. 

  • 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. 

  • People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group. 

sovereign

noun
  • A monarch; the ruler of a country. 

  • A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring. 

  • A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles. 

  • One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation. 

  • A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin. 

  • A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value. 

  • Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy. 

adj
  • Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount. 

  • Exceptional in quality. 

  • Princely; royal. 

  • Having supreme, ultimate power. 

  • Exercising power of rule. 

verb
  • To rule over as a sovereign. 

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