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单词 tsar
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Definition of tsar in English:

tsar

(also czar, tzar)
noun zɑːtsɑː
  • 1An emperor of Russia before 1917.

    as title Tsar Nicholas II
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When Washington was elected President of the United States in 1789, the Holy Roman Empire still existed, France had a king, Russia had a tsar, China had an emperor and Japan had a shogun - none of which exist today.
    • In the Russian empire of the tsars there had been no national republics, just non-ethnic provinces.
    • For 51 days, the Soviet of Workers' Deputies in the then Russian capital St Petersburg had been an alternative power to the tsar, Russia's absolute monarch.
    • When he abdicated in 1917, Nicholas II, tsar of Russia, rather hoped he might have been allowed to live out the rest of his days in peace with his family in the Crimea.
    • For the tsar, Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners.
    • They are supposed to take pride in their country, delight in Russia's tsars, armies and brave field commanders, and revel in the nation's scientific discoveries and success stories.
    • Under Peter the Great, the Romanov tsar who ruled from 1682 to 1725, Russia began a period of imperial expansion that continued into the Soviet period.
    • The crowned heads of Europe - kings, emperors, tsars, and kaisers - still entertained each other at regattas, manœuvres, weddings, and funerals.
    • In 1832, Baron Schilling, a Russian diplomat, linked the Summer Palace of the tsar in St Petersburg to the Winter Palace using a telegraph with rotating magnetized needles.
    • In 1887, Lenin's elder brother - Alexander - was arrested for plotting to kill the tsar of Russia.
    • By the end of the day the members of the Provisional Government were under arrest, the tsar and his family were also under house arrest.
    • The last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his czarina, Alexandra, led a contented family life with four daughters and a son.
    • The epic sweep of history is effectively captured in the many fluid crowd scenes, while the private tragedy of the guilt-ridden czar Boris, his family, and his enemies is brought sharply into focus.
    • The grand dukes became the tsars of Muscovy, who in turn became emperors of the Russian Empire.
    • Whenever political theorists looked for a contemporary example of such a government, their eyes fell upon either the Ottoman sultans or the Russian tsars and tsarinas.
    • The idea of absolute state sovereignty is relatively new, and it derives from agreements among kings, emperors, kaisers, and czars for their mutual benefit.
    • Europe's Slavonic eastern frontier zone was covered by the kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, and the realms of the tsar of Russia.
    • The Jews must be utterly loyal to the tsar or emperor, and be willing to die for him, yet they also must respect the judiciary as an intermediary between individuals.
    • At midnight we boarded a train to Saint Petersburg, once home of the czars and Russia's most European city.
    • The other superpowers had been shocked when the czar of Russia extended an invitation to the king of Spain.
    Synonyms
    ruler, sovereign, king, monarch, potentate, lord, overlord
    1. 1.1 A South Slav ruler in former times, especially one reigning over Serbia in the 14th century.
      as title the great martyr and prince of Serbia, Tsar Lazar
      Example sentencesExamples
      • After the sixteenth century, the tsar's court, the gentry, and wealthy merchants supported metalworking, jewelry, textile, and porcelain workshops.
      • Historical artefacts preserved from that period show the might of the Bulgarian tsar dynasties and the influence of the Bulgarian Patriarch.
      • In the 16th century the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander who won a battle against the Byzantine army and made Perperikon a regional centre by appointing a governor.
      • In the reign of the Bulgarian tsar Boris I, those territories were incorporated into several komitati (units of local authority).
  • 2usually with adjective or noun modifier A person appointed by government to advise on and coordinate policy in a particular area.

    the former British drugs czar
    Example sentencesExamples
    • President Bush has nominated John Walters, to be our nation's next drug czar.
    • Later today, the White House car czar Edward Montgomery testifies on Capitol Hill.
    • Kerry declared that he will accept whole hog the 9/11 Commission's recent recommendations, including establishing a centralised intelligence czar.
    • The effort would be overseen by a powerful crisis manager modeled on Bernard Baruch, Woodrow Wilson's domestic war czar.
    • On Capitol Hill today, three former CIA directors voiced their concerns about the possible creation of a national intelligence czar.
    • And former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle also pulled out of the running for health and human services secretary, as well as health czar.
    • I think what Jack just said about our schools failing, we need an education czar.
    • It said an identity fraud tsar would create a single point of contact across government, police and the private sector.
    • I want to start with what Vice President Biden had to say yesterday during the nomination of the new drug czar.
    • The public also can seem a bit dismissive of tsars.
    • We've heard about a lot of different czars climate czar, drug czar, now a border czar.
    • Indeed, the government now desires a new regulatory agency under a sort of "czar for access."
    • Barry McCaffrey is now the Clinton administration's drug czar.
    • Having had command of tanks and jet fighters isn't impor tant in a drug czar; having command of common sense is.
    • The tsar will also be responsible for helping firms and organisations that want to bring in their own rules against smoking.
    • I don't even understand this "war czar" thing.
    • A key recommendation of the report is that the US to create an " intelligence tsar ".
    • After his stint as drug czar, Bennett moved on to become a for-profit defender of morals.
    • Barry M. McCaffrey, a retired Army general and former drug czar, took direct aim at Rumsfeld.
    • He suggested that jobs moving to foreign shores was his primary reason for creating the new manufacturing czar.

Derivatives

  • tsardom

  • noun ˈzɑːdəmˈtsɑːdəm
    • I can find no evidence that any of the tsars are doing this but plenty of evidence that colleagues think it a risk of tsardom.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Attempts by tsardom to court the reformist intelligentsia were replaced by a military dictatorship.
      • They were similar to the revolutionaries of tsarist Russia, who also had diverse views of what would happen to their country after the end of tsardom.
      • The distinctive feature of the Russian tsardom was that, after the fall of Constantinople, it was the only remaining independent Orthodox Christian principality.
      • The notion of despotism masquerading as liberation was part of the Victorian liberal stereotype of tsardom.
  • tsarism

  • nounˈzɑːrɪz(ə)mˈtsɑːrɪz(ə)m
    • Or would the overthrow of tsarism, the establishment of a democratic republic and the beginning of the transition to socialism proceed on the basis of the growth of Russian capitalism and the emergence of a modern industrial proletariat?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Only the united Balkan peoples can give a real rebuff to the shameless pretensions of tsarism and European imperialism.
      • The most significant aspect of the Russian Revolution was the dominant political role played by the proletariat in the struggle against tsarism.
      • But he should have considered the possibility - if only to reject it - that tsarism could have given way not to Bolshevism but to ‘liberal democracy,’ ‘social democracy’ or ‘peasant democracy.’
      • In the development of the revolutionary struggle against tsarism, what would be the relationship between the major classes opposed to tsarism - the bourgeoisie, peasantry and working class?
  • tsarist

  • noun & adjectiveˈzɑːrɪstˈtsɑːrɪst
    • When, in 1809, Finland became a grand duchy of the tsarist empire, the first seeds of national self-consciousness were sown.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His maternal grandfather, who fled Russia to avoid conscription by the tsarist army, was a Hebrew scholar, mystic, mathematician, and inventor who made boots and shoes for a living.
      • Assisted by the Germans, who hoped that he would undermine the Russian war effort, Lenin returned home and started working against the provisional government which had replaced the tsarist regime.
      • The Stalinist leadership rehabilitated prerevolutionary military and cultural figures, while championing the Soviet state as the natural heir of the tsarist empire.
      • The third period began with the fall of tsarist Russia in 1918.

Origin

From Russian tsarʹ, representing Latin Caesar.

Rhymes

aargh, Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, bar, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Bekaa, bête noire, Bihar, bizarre, blah, Bogotá, Bonnard, bra, cafard, café noir, Calabar, car, Carr, Castlebar, catarrh, Changsha, char, charr, cigar, comme ci comme ça, commissar, coup d'état, de haut en bas, devoir, Dhofar, Directoire, Du Bois, Dumas, Dunbar, éclat, embarras de choix, escritoire, fah, famille noire, far, feu de joie, film noir, foie gras, Fra, galah, gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, khimar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, Lehár, Loire, ma, mama, mamma, mar, Mardi Gras, ménage à trois, mirepoix, moire, nam pla, Navarre, noir, objet d'art, pa, pah, Panama, papa, par, Pará, Paraná, pas, pâté de foie gras, peau-de-soie, pietà, Pinot Noir, pooh-bah, poult-de-soie, pya, rah, registrar, Saar, Salazar, Sana'a, sang-froid, scar, schwa, Seychellois, shah, Shangri-La, shikar, ska, sol-fa, spa, spar, star, Starr, Stranraer, ta, tahr, tar, tartare, tata, tra-la, Twa, Villa, voilà, waratah, yah
 
 

Definition of tsar in US English:

tsar

(also tzar, czar)
noun
  • 1An emperor of Russia before 1917.

    Tsar Nicholas II
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For the tsar, Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners.
    • The crowned heads of Europe - kings, emperors, tsars, and kaisers - still entertained each other at regattas, manœuvres, weddings, and funerals.
    • Whenever political theorists looked for a contemporary example of such a government, their eyes fell upon either the Ottoman sultans or the Russian tsars and tsarinas.
    • When Washington was elected President of the United States in 1789, the Holy Roman Empire still existed, France had a king, Russia had a tsar, China had an emperor and Japan had a shogun - none of which exist today.
    • In 1832, Baron Schilling, a Russian diplomat, linked the Summer Palace of the tsar in St Petersburg to the Winter Palace using a telegraph with rotating magnetized needles.
    • When he abdicated in 1917, Nicholas II, tsar of Russia, rather hoped he might have been allowed to live out the rest of his days in peace with his family in the Crimea.
    • The Jews must be utterly loyal to the tsar or emperor, and be willing to die for him, yet they also must respect the judiciary as an intermediary between individuals.
    • By the end of the day the members of the Provisional Government were under arrest, the tsar and his family were also under house arrest.
    • Europe's Slavonic eastern frontier zone was covered by the kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, and the realms of the tsar of Russia.
    • In 1887, Lenin's elder brother - Alexander - was arrested for plotting to kill the tsar of Russia.
    • Under Peter the Great, the Romanov tsar who ruled from 1682 to 1725, Russia began a period of imperial expansion that continued into the Soviet period.
    • The last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his czarina, Alexandra, led a contented family life with four daughters and a son.
    • At midnight we boarded a train to Saint Petersburg, once home of the czars and Russia's most European city.
    • The grand dukes became the tsars of Muscovy, who in turn became emperors of the Russian Empire.
    • They are supposed to take pride in their country, delight in Russia's tsars, armies and brave field commanders, and revel in the nation's scientific discoveries and success stories.
    • In the Russian empire of the tsars there had been no national republics, just non-ethnic provinces.
    • For 51 days, the Soviet of Workers' Deputies in the then Russian capital St Petersburg had been an alternative power to the tsar, Russia's absolute monarch.
    • The idea of absolute state sovereignty is relatively new, and it derives from agreements among kings, emperors, kaisers, and czars for their mutual benefit.
    • The epic sweep of history is effectively captured in the many fluid crowd scenes, while the private tragedy of the guilt-ridden czar Boris, his family, and his enemies is brought sharply into focus.
    • The other superpowers had been shocked when the czar of Russia extended an invitation to the king of Spain.
    Synonyms
    ruler, sovereign, king, monarch, potentate, lord, overlord
    1. 1.1 A South Slav ruler in former times, especially one reigning over Serbia in the 14th century.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the reign of the Bulgarian tsar Boris I, those territories were incorporated into several komitati (units of local authority).
      • Historical artefacts preserved from that period show the might of the Bulgarian tsar dynasties and the influence of the Bulgarian Patriarch.
      • In the 16th century the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander who won a battle against the Byzantine army and made Perperikon a regional centre by appointing a governor.
      • After the sixteenth century, the tsar's court, the gentry, and wealthy merchants supported metalworking, jewelry, textile, and porcelain workshops.
  • 2usually with adjective or noun modifier A person appointed by government to advise on and coordinate policy in a particular area.

    America's new drug czar
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It said an identity fraud tsar would create a single point of contact across government, police and the private sector.
    • I think what Jack just said about our schools failing, we need an education czar.
    • And former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle also pulled out of the running for health and human services secretary, as well as health czar.
    • We've heard about a lot of different czars climate czar, drug czar, now a border czar.
    • Indeed, the government now desires a new regulatory agency under a sort of "czar for access."
    • Barry McCaffrey is now the Clinton administration's drug czar.
    • I don't even understand this "war czar" thing.
    • President Bush has nominated John Walters, to be our nation's next drug czar.
    • A key recommendation of the report is that the US to create an " intelligence tsar ".
    • Barry M. McCaffrey, a retired Army general and former drug czar, took direct aim at Rumsfeld.
    • On Capitol Hill today, three former CIA directors voiced their concerns about the possible creation of a national intelligence czar.
    • Having had command of tanks and jet fighters isn't impor tant in a drug czar; having command of common sense is.
    • The effort would be overseen by a powerful crisis manager modeled on Bernard Baruch, Woodrow Wilson's domestic war czar.
    • Later today, the White House car czar Edward Montgomery testifies on Capitol Hill.
    • After his stint as drug czar, Bennett moved on to become a for-profit defender of morals.
    • The public also can seem a bit dismissive of tsars.
    • The tsar will also be responsible for helping firms and organisations that want to bring in their own rules against smoking.
    • I want to start with what Vice President Biden had to say yesterday during the nomination of the new drug czar.
    • Kerry declared that he will accept whole hog the 9/11 Commission's recent recommendations, including establishing a centralised intelligence czar.
    • He suggested that jobs moving to foreign shores was his primary reason for creating the new manufacturing czar.

Origin

From Russian tsarʹ, representing Latin Caesar.

 
 
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