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单词 emperor
释义

emperor

/ˈɛmp(ə)rə /
noun
1A sovereign ruler of an empire: he became emperor in 1930 he is regarded as one of the greatest Roman emperors...
  • The emperor and empress earlier in the day met with the king, who has been discharged from the hospital.
  • The king is expected to invite the emperor and empress to a private dinner at his palace on Wednesday.
  • At the end of the passage, there is a big hillock, under which the first Qing emperor and empress are buried.

Synonyms

ruler, sovereign, king, monarch, potentate, lord, overlord
formerly, in certain Muslim countries khan
Russian, historical tsar
German, historical kaiser
Japanese, historical mikado
in ancient Rome imperator
rare ethnarch, autarch
2An orange and brown North American butterfly with a swift dodging flight, breeding chiefly on hackberries.
  • Genus Asterocampa, subfamily Apaturinae, family Nymphalidae: several species, in particular the tawny emperor (A. clyton). See also purple emperor.

Phrases

the emperor's new clothes

Derivatives

emperorship

noun ...
  • The only check on that power is the spasmodic eruption of pseudo-scandal, a brief orgy of blood-letting as used to occur between emperorships in ancient Rome.
  • Helping him is Wu Yip, who has designs on the emperorship of China.
  • In this way, the astronomical clock and the water mill became two different embodiments of the same emperorship in science.

Origin

Middle English (especially representing the title given to the head of the Roman Empire): from Old French emperere, from Latin imperator 'military commander', from imperare 'to command', from in- 'towards' + parare 'prepare, contrive'.

  • The root of emperor is the Latin word imperare ‘to command’, which is also the ultimate source of empire (Middle English), imperative (mid 16th century), imperial (Late Middle English), and imperious (late 16th century). Latin imperator meant ‘military commander’, which was given as a title to Julius Caesar and to Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and was adopted by subsequent rulers of the empire. In English, emperor first referred to these Roman rulers, and then to the head of the Holy Roman Empire. See also evil

Rhymes

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