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emperor

emperor

524 3.5
A man who rules an empire made of many countries
  • noun
  • /ˈɛmpərər/
translation icon : emperador
  • 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.

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Examples

  • Behold the Aspect, Emperor of the Three Seas.

  • But the Emperor of China had 1,000 of them.

  • How about the first Emperor of the King Dynasty?

  • I had to figure out how to praise the emperor in English.

  • Where is the boat to take the emperor to Constantinople?

  • "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.

  • Today we're talking about Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic emperor and his Meditations.

  • In the film Amadeus, Emperor Franz Joseph critiques an opera written for him by Mozart.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The emperor ruled over a vast empire that included many different cultures.

Synonyms

ruler
vsemperor
153 2.1

A person who has power over a country or its people

is specifically the male sovereign of an empire spanning several nations not any governor
monarch
vsemperor
41 5.1

A king or queen who rules a country and usually gets the job by birth

is the male sovereign of a multi nation empire rather than a single nation
sovereign
vsemperor
40 7.2

A king or queen who rules a country and gets the position from their family

is the male head of a realm comprising several nations rather than a single nation
imperator
vsemperor
  • Archaic
3 9.9

An old title given to a Roman general after victory

refers generally to a male sovereign of a multi nation empire
autarch
vsemperor
  • Formal
3 9.9

A ruler who has complete power over a country and its people

focuses on hereditary male head of a multi nation realm not power alone
padishah
vsemperor
  • Archaic
9.9

A title for a powerful emperor used by Ottoman and Persian leaders

is the general term for a male ruler of a multi nation realm
male monarch
vsemperor
4.6

A man who rules a country as its king

is the ruler of a vast realm of several nations rather than a single kingdom

Compounds

A ruler of the ancient Roman Empire who has almost complete power

A very large penguin from Antarctica that is the largest of all penguins

little emperor
  • Offensive
1 8.5

A child who is spoiled because parents give them everything they want

A ruler of a group of central European territories from about 962 to 1806

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

7.9

A large moth with patterned, partly see-through wings that lives in forests of Europe and Asia

God Emperor
  • Literature
9.9

A ruler people treat as a god who has political and religious power

A large European butterfly with shiny purple wings

How Powerful

overlord
21 8.4
emperor
524 3.5
king
1.0
chief
1.9

Surface Forms

emperor singular
emperors plural

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.