empress
/ˈɛmprəs
/noun
1A female emperor: Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress at Delhi in 1877...
- Constitutional changes to permit a female empress may thus trigger dangerous public debate about the need for a monarchy.
- It should be noted that Orchid's character is based on Tzu Hsi, who was China's longest-reigning female ruler and its last empress.
- China's emperors and empresses knew what they wanted.
Synonyms
ruler, sovereign, monarch, potentate
Russian, historical tsarina
rare imperatrix, autarch, ethnarch
1.1The wife or widow of an emperor: she became Empress of France as the wife of Napoleon III...
- The emperor and empress met the Malaysian royal couple during a visit to Malaysia in 1970.
- Later emperors carried it further and in the second century AD empresses such as Sabina (wife of the emperor Trajan) were depicted as embodying, for example, pietas (family feeling).
- When she died, only four years ago at the age of 97, she was also the longest living empress consort in Japanese history.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French emperesse, feminine of emperere (see emperor).
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