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Empress
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- 1 A village in Alberta, Canada.
- 1 The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
"Sit downe by her: adorned with my Crowne, As if thou wert the Empreſſe of the world."
- 2 The title of an empress.
"The opening through which French taste jumped was Peter the Great’s “window on Europe,” the new Russian capital he built on the Neva River in 1703 to give Russians greater proximity to European culture, and to showcase Russia’s wealth and burgeoning cultural institutions. It took the better part of a century and Empress Catherine the Great -- wife of Peter’s grandson -- to make it happen."
- 3 a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor wordnet
- 4 The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
"Empress, imperial regent, and even emperor herself (r. 797–802), Irene was an important and powerful figure at the Byzantine court in the late eighth and early ninth century."
- 5 The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
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- 6 A female chimpanzee. rare
- 7 A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
- 8 A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the rook and the knight.
- 1 Rare form of impress. form-of, rare
Etymology
From Middle English emperice, emperesse, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empereriz, from Latin imperatrix, equivalent to emperor + -ess. Doublet of imperatrix. Compare modern French impératrice.
From Middle English empresse, from Anglo-Norman enpresser (“to press, to imprint”), from Old French empresser. Attested from the 15th or late 14th century.
From empress. The village was named in 1913 for Queen Victoria, who was Empress of India.
From empress. The village was named in 1913 for Queen Victoria, who was Empress of India.
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