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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?
The word emperor (from Latin: imperator, via Old French: empereor) 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 ).
Emperor definition: the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire. See examples of EMPEROR used in a sentence.
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.
4 days ago · Emperor, title designating the sovereign of an empire, conferred originally on rulers of the Roman Empire and on various later European rulers, including the Holy Roman emperors, the Russian tsars, and Napoleon Bonaparte. It has also been applied to certain non-European rulers, such as those of Ethiopia or Japan.
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
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.
Definition of emperor noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Emperor definition, the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire: the emperors of Rome. See more.
