emperor
/ˈɛmp(ə)ɹɚ/ noun B1- The male monarch or ruler of an empire. · In imperial China, it was often a responsibility of the emperor to evaluate his predecessor after the latter's death.
- Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.
- Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch. · The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.
- The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
- A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
- Any fish of the family Lethrinidae.
- Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Charaxinae.
- Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus Anax.
Plural emperors
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Armies and emperors and kings,
“My dear fellow, the emperor is at this moment on the way to Grenoble; on the 10th or 12th he will be at Lyons, and on the 20th or 25th at Paris.”
For the first time our eyes rested upon this presentment of the great emperor, which seemed to raise such frantic and destructive hatred in the mind of the unknown.
Barnicot is an enthusiastic admirer of Napoleon, and his house is full of books, pictures, and relics of the French Emperor.
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