emperor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmpəɹə/
ipa: /ˈɛmpɹə/
ipa: /ˈɛmpəɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈɛmpɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈempɘɹɘ/
ipa: /ˈempɹɘ/
Forms: form: emperors
form: emperour
Etymology: From Middle English emperour, from Anglo-Norman emperour, from Latin imperātorem, derived from imperō (“to command”). Doublet of imperator. Displaced earlier Old English casere, from Latin Caesar.
Senses: examples: text: In imperial China, it was often a responsibility of the emperor to evaluate his predecessor after the latter's death.
text: They asked Julius Caesar, the valiant Roman emperor, what was the best death. He answered, that which is unexpected, which comes suddenly and unforeseen
ref: 1885, John Ormsby, transl., Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Volume 2 Chapter XXIV:
glosses: The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
examples: text: In 690 Wu usurped the throne and became Emperor herself, which proved a unique event in the history of China.
ref: 1994, Het Spinhuis, Transactions: Essays in Honor of Jeremy F. Boissevain:
text: After his death in 683 she ruled for seven years as regent and then, deposing her son, became emperor herself, the only woman in Chinese history to hold the title.
ref: 2002, The Heritage of World Civilizations: To 1700, page 226:
text: Empress, imperial regent, and even emperor herself (r. 797–802), Irene was an important and powerful figure at the Byzantine court in the late eighth and early ninth century.
ref: 2008, Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation, page 211:
text: Originally the wife of the emperor, she engineered the imperial succession so that she could serve first as regent to a boy emperor and then as emperor herself.
ref: 2013, Voyages in World History, page 213:
text: Where is Sindbad? I have a summons for him direct from the galactic emperor herself. He is to be brought here immediately to give an explanation for his recent actions.
ref: 2016, Commander Pakydus, Sindbad & the 7 Galaxies:
glosses: Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.
examples: text: The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.
qualifier: political theory
glosses: Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
tarot
glosses: The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
examples: text: But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies, emperors, etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles […]
ref: 2001, Paul Webley, The economic psychology of everyday life, page 39:
glosses: A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
glosses: Any fish of the family Lethrinidae.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Charaxinae.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus Anax.
examples: text: We do not know if the emperors are monogamous. I know some of the penguins species mate for life.
ref: 2008, Gloria Clifford, Emperor Penguins: The Lords of Antarctica:
text: During pairing, mates walk an average of only 90 m per day, and, while incubating, male emperors move an average of 30 m per day.
ref: 2012, Lloyd S. Davis, John T. Darby, Penguin Biology, page 273:
text: If they were emperors, I wanted a better view. Being told they were emperors was no good; I needed to see them. But as quickly as we had spotted them, they spotted us. Sliding on their bellies, two emperors began to rush over.
ref: 2019, Lindsay McCrae, My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors:
glosses: An emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri).
Hyponyms: barracks emperor
basileus
mikado
tenno
Derived terms: word: antiemperor
word: Australian emperor
word: Chimperor
word: coemperor
word: emperor butterfly
word: emperor fairywren
taxonomic: Anser canagicus
word: emperor goose
word: emperorism
word: emperorist
word: emperorlike
english: Saturniinae
translation: Saturniinae
word: emperor moth
word: emperor paper
taxonomic: Aptenodytes forsteri
word: emperor penguin
word: emperor rat
word: emperor scorpion
word: emperorship
word: emperor shrimp
word: emperor tamarin
word: God Emperor
word: little emperor
word: little emperor syndrome
word: pale-spotted emperor
word: purple emperor
word: Trumperor
Related terms: empire
empress
imperial
imperialism
imperially