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- Dictionaryemperor/ˈɛmp(ə)rə/
noun
- 1. a sovereign ruler of an empire: "he became emperor in 1930"
- 2. an orange and brown North American butterfly with a swift dodging flight, breeding chiefly on hackberries.
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a male ruler of an empire. Compare. empress. Examples. He'd dressed himself up as a Roman emperor for the fancy-dress party. This type of porcelain was made specifically for the Chinese emperor and the imperial household. Hirohito was Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
The meaning of EMPEROR is the sovereign or supreme male monarch of an empire. How to use emperor in a sentence. Did you know?
This concept became a key element of the meaning of "emperor" in the Byzantine and Orthodox east, but went out of favor in the west with the rise of Roman Catholicism. The Byzantine Empire also produced three women who effectively governed the state: the Empress Irene and the Empresses Zoe and Theodora .
a male ruler of an empire. Compare. empress. Examples. He'd dressed up as a Roman emperor for the costume party. This type of porcelain was made specifically for the Chinese emperor and the imperial household. Hirohito was Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
An emperor is a man who rules an empire or is the head of state in an empire. The emperor wore a silk robe of burnt orange. Synonyms: ruler , king , monarch , sovereign More Synonyms of emperor
Emperor definition: the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire. See examples of EMPEROR used in a sentence.
emperor, title designating the sovereign of an empire, conferred originally on rulers of the ancient Roman Empire and on various later European rulers, though the term is also applied descriptively to some non-European monarchs. In republican Rome (c. 509–27 bce), imperator denoted a victorious general, so named by his troops or by the Senate.
used to describe a situation in which everybody suddenly realizes that they were wrong to believe that somebody/something was very good, important, etc. Is this artist's white canvas a case of the emperor's new clothes or is it something beautiful, even moving?
n. 1. The male ruler of an empire. 2. a. The emperor butterfly. b. The emperor moth. c. The emperor penguin. [Middle English emperour, from Old French empereor, from Latin imperātor, from imperāre, to command : in-, in; see en-1 + parāre, to prepare; see perə- in Indo-European roots.] em′per·or·ship′ n.
EMPEROR definition: the male ruler of an empire (= group of countries ruled by one person or government): . Learn more.
