empire
/ˈɛmˌpaɪ̯ɹ/ sustantivo B1En español: imperio
- A political state, often a monarchy, that has achieved a much greater current size than its initial size by conquering surrounding territories, cities or nations. · the Russian empire
- A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress. · The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.
- The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.
- An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group. · the McDonald's fast food empire
- control, dominion, sway.
Plural empires
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“This, gentlemen, is Colonel Sebastian Moran, once of Her Majesty’s Indian Army, and the best heavy-game shot that our Eastern Empire has ever produced.
Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Dantès remained a prisoner, and heard not the noise of the fall of Louis XVIII.’s throne, or the still more tragic destruction of the empire.
During this time the empire made its last conscription, and every man in France capable of bearing arms rushed to obey the summons of the emperor.
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