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- Dictionaryemperor/ˈɛmp(ə)rə/
noun
- 1. a sovereign ruler of an empire: "he became emperor in 1930"
- 2. an orange and brown North American butterfly with a swift dodging flight, breeding chiefly on hackberries.
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a male ruler of an empire. Compare. empress. Examples. He'd dressed himself up as a Roman emperor for the fancy-dress party. This type of porcelain was made specifically for the Chinese emperor and the imperial household. Hirohito was Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
The meaning of EMPEROR is the sovereign or supreme male monarch of an empire. How to use emperor in a sentence. Did you know?
a male ruler of an empire. Compare. empress. Examples. He'd dressed up as a Roman emperor for the costume party. This type of porcelain was made specifically for the Chinese emperor and the imperial household. Hirohito was Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
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.
Emperor definition: the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire. See examples of EMPEROR used in a sentence.
Jul 1, 2024 · emperor, title designating the sovereign of an empire, conferred originally on rulers of the ancient Roman Empire and on various later European rulers, though the term is also applied descriptively to some non-European monarchs. In republican Rome (c. 509–27 bce ), imperator denoted a victorious general, so named by his troops or by the Senate.
Definition of emperor noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a monarch who rules or reigns over an empire. 2. (Animals) Also called: emperor moth any of several large saturniid moths with eyelike markings on each wing, esp Saturnia pavonia of Europe. See also giant peacock moth. 3. (Animals) See purple emperor.
Emperor definition, the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire: the emperors of Rome. See more.
EMPEROR definition: the male ruler of an empire (= group of countries ruled by one person or government): . Learn more.
