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1. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › emperorEmperor Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   The meaning of EMPEROR is the sovereign or supreme male monarch of an empire. How to use emperor in a sentence. Did you know?

2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishEMPEROR | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   a male ruler of an empire. (Definition of emperor from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of emperor. emperor. More often than not, damage-control treatment was applied to documents that contained the material detrimental to the legitimacy of the emperor or the regime. From the Cambridge English Corpus.

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   The word emperor (from Latin: imperator, via Old French: empereor) [1] can mean the male ruler of an empire. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), mother/grandmother (empress dowager/grand empress dowager), or a woman who rules in her own right and name (empress regnant or suo jure).

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   a male ruler of an empire. (Definition of emperor from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of emperor. emperor. But the emperor-dictator fell when the prince was five. From Washington Times. In many ancient cultures, kings and emperors were worshipped as gods. From Wired.

5. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishEMPEROR definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   An emperor is a man who rules an empire or is the head of state in an empire. The emperor wore a silk robe of burnt orange. Synonyms: ruler , king , monarch , sovereign More Synonyms of emperor

6. www.oed.com › dictionary › emperor_nemperor, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...

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   What does the noun emperor mean? There are ten meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun emperor. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. emperor has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. Roman history (Middle English) military (Middle English) fish (mid 1600s) insects (mid 1700s) birds (1840s)

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   What does Emperor mean in English?

   • The word emperor (from Latin: imperator, via Old French: empereor) [ 1 ] can mean the male ruler of an empire. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), mother/grandmother (empress dowager / grand empress dowager), or a woman who rules in her own right and name (empress regnant or suo jure).

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   How many meanings does the noun Emperor have?

   • There are ten meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun emperor. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. emperor has developed meanings and uses in subjects including How common is the noun emperor? About 10 occurrences per million words in modern written English How is the noun emperor pronounced?

   emperor, n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary

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   Where did the word emperor come from?

   • The word caesar was borrowed into German and other Germanic languages as Kaiser, which is how we get the word kaiser for “a ruler in Germany.” Through the Russian word tsar, which also came from kaiser, we got our word czar, meaning “a ruler in Russia.” The word emperor can be traced through French to Latin imperator.

   Emperor Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   Is Emperor a king or Empress?

   • [ 2 ] Both emperors and kings are monarchs or sovereigns, both emperor and empress are considered monarchical titles. In as much as there is a strict definition of emperor, it is that an emperor has no relations implying the superiority of any other ruler and typically rules over more than one nation.

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   What is a Chinese emperor called?

   • 皇帝 is the title of emperors in East Asia. An emperor is called Huángdì in Chinese, Hwangje in Korean, Hoàng đế in Vietnamese, and Kōtei in Japanese, but these are all just their respective pronunciations of the Chinese character 皇帝. But, the Japanese call only their emperors with the special title Tennō (天皇).

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   What is the meaning of Imperator?

   • The title used was Latin " Imperator ", which is a westernizing form equivalent to the traditional Slavic title " Tsar ". He based his claim partially upon a letter discovered in 1717 written in 1514 from Maximilian I to Vasili III, in which the Holy Roman Emperor used the term in referring to Vasili.

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   emperor. Forget prime ministers, presidents or even kings or queens: an emperor was the biggest, baddest ruler of them all — the leader of undisputed power who controlled a nation or, more usually, a number of subjugated nations known collectively as an empire.