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Czar

//zɑː(ɹ)// name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village in Alberta, Canada.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of tsar (especially common in American English) alt-of, alternative

    "Note therfore that Czar in the Ruthens tounge signifieth a kynge, wheras in the language of the Slauons, Pollons, Bohemes, and other, the same woorde Czar, signifieth Cesar by whiche name Themperours haue byn commonly cauled."

  2. 2
    a person having great power wordnet
  3. 3
    An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area. Philippine, US, informal

    "drug czar"

  4. 4
    a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin Caesarbor. Proto-Germanic *kaisarazder. Proto-Slavic *cěsařь Old East Slavic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ) Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ) Russian царь (carʹ)bor. English czar See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from the book Notes on Muscovite Affairs (1549) by Sigismund von Herberstein. It was supplanted by the alternative tsar in the 19th century.

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