emperor
- noun
- /ˈɛmpərər/
- The emperor will not be stopped with bricks and mortar.
- Roman emperor
- reigning emperor
- Chinese emperor
But now the crowd's acclaim a new Emperor Hypatius.
- But now the crowd's acclaim a new Emperor Hypatius.
- And this week Emperor Franz Joseph dies.
- Behold the Aspect, Emperor of the Three Seas.
- Knowing that nearly his entire court was against him, Emperor Wu displayed Immaculate cunning.
- Wasn't it the emperor himself or was it the Pope?
- I've given you a handout that shows the emperors of this.
- So again, feels like the Emperor's new clothes to me.
- Every single war, hundreds of them, kings, Queens, emperors, dictators.
Examples
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Behold the Aspect, Emperor of the Three Seas.
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But the Emperor of China had 1,000 of them.
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How about the first Emperor of the King Dynasty?
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I had to figure out how to praise the emperor in English.
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Where is the boat to take the emperor to Constantinople?
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"All of Tamuli is under martial law now," the emperor told his officials.
Fiction book (1993) -
But now I know that the Emperor's sole desire is war.
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Today we're talking about Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic emperor and his Meditations.
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In the film Amadeus, Emperor Franz Joseph critiques an opera written for him by Mozart.
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The emperor ruled over a vast empire that included many different cultures.
Synonyms
A person who has power over a country or its people
A king or queen who rules a country and usually gets the job by birth
A king or queen who rules a country and gets the position from their family
An old title given to a Roman general after victory
A ruler who has complete power over a country and its people
A title for a powerful emperor used by Ottoman and Persian leaders
A man who rules a country as its king
Compounds
- Offensive
A child who is spoiled because parents give them everything they want
A person who ruled the Roman Empire from Augustus to the end of the Western Empire
A large bright butterfly with blue or green wings found in Africa and parts of Europe and Asia
- UK
A large moth with patterned, partly see-through wings that lives in forests of Europe and Asia
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word emperor comes from the Latin imperator, from imperare meaning 'to command' or 'order', and it shares the root with empire, so an emperor is the one who 'commands' an empire.