tsarnoun [ C ]
mainly UK also tzar, US usually czar uk/zɑːr/us/zɑːr/tsar noun [ C ] (RULER)
(until 1917) the male Russian ruler:
Tsar Nicholas I
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Royalty, aristocracy & titles
- accession
- archduke
- aristocracy
- aristocrat
- baron
- ennoble
- er
- esquire
- grace
- hereditary peer
- monarchist
- Mr
- Mrs
- nobility
- noble
- sheikh
- sire
- sovereign
- squire
- sultan
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tsar noun [ C ] (OFFICIAL)
a person who has been given special powers by the government to deal with a particular matter:
The government has appointed a drugs tsar to coordinate the fight against drug abuse.
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People in charge of or controlling other people
- administrator
- authority
- bureaucrat
- chairman
- chairperson
- force
- giant
- Goliath
- guiding spirit
- headman
- helicopter parent
- hierarchy
- leader
- marshal
- on high idiom
- operator
- overlord
- paymaster
- pillar
- powerhouse
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tsar noun [ C ] (LEADER)
a powerful person in business or politics:
a group of publishing tsars
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People in charge of or controlling other people
- administrator
- authority
- bureaucrat
- chairman
- chairperson
- force
- giant
- Goliath
- guiding spirit
- headman
- helicopter parent
- hierarchy
- leader
- marshal
- on high idiom
- operator
- overlord
- paymaster
- pillar
- powerhouse
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tsarist
adjective, noun [ C ] mainly UK also tzarist, US usually czarist uk/ˈzɑː.rɪst/us/ˈzɑːr.ɪst/
the tsarist empire
Tsarist Russia