czar
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- noun
- /zɑr/
- US
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- A czar's decree of 1827 opened Finland's military and civil offices to the Orthodox.
- czar of Russia
Sergei Vita finally lost the Tsar's confidence and was dismissed.
- Sergei Vita finally lost the Tsar's confidence and was dismissed.
- Peter, the great czar was a cruel man.
- It's just like, it's so fucking crazy, like the autocracy embodied in Tsar Alexander.
- You can see reading between the lines that he sees himself as the successor to the great czars of of Russia.
- Well, the czar was at the Stavka at Mogiliev really on the sort of in Poland.
- I think he was a count when the Tsar was usurped and the Bolsheviks came in and they should have killed him.
- The Russia of Vladimir Putin, which is a kind of revamped Russian Empire, with him as some kind of latter day Tsar.
- When they killed the czar, who's the cousin of King George at the time in England and Kaiser Wilhelm in Germany, neither royal family could believe that.
Examples
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Throughout the nineteenth century, conditions for Jews varied, changing especially with the ascension of each new czar.
Academic text (2006) -
Countess Uvarova implored the czar to save what she called the "Russian Pompeii."
Academic text (2002) -
Peter, the great czar was a cruel man.
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Unfortunately, the czar refused to give the delegation an audience.
Fiction book (1992) -
The czar sold ten thousand serfs in the market to buy these for his wife.
Fiction book (1999) -
And the liberals didn't want the Czar there either.
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For his service, Andrei Razumovsky was promoted from count to prince by the czar.
Academic text (1993) -
They are to greet the czar of all the Russias... when he arrives at the railway station.
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Russia's imperial nature remains remarkably unchanged whether prosecuted by czar, commissar, or president.
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The czar ruled over the vast Russian Empire during the 17th century.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Czar comes from the name Caesar, a famous Roman ruler whose name became a title meaning 'emperor'; that title was used for Russian monarchs, so a czar was literally the country's emperor.