empire
see also: Empire
Pronunciation Noun
Empire
Pronunciation Adjective
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see also: Empire
Pronunciation Noun
empire (plural empires)
- A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority.
- the Russian empire
- A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
- The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.
- A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
- An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
- the McDonald's fast food empire
- 2002, Evelyn L. Damore, The Rattle and Hiss of the Tin Gods, iUniverse (ISBN 9780595228447), page 111:
- “Revenues for Jackson's non-profit empire sky-rocketed from $4 million in 1997, to more than $14 million just two years later.”
- 2009, Martin Short, The Rise of the Mafia, Kings Road Publishing (ISBN 9781843582236)
- The Mafia never forgave Castro but Lansky had already laid the foundations of a mob gambling empire all over the Caribbean […]
- (Absolute) control, dominion, sway.
- 1881, François Guizot, The History of Civilization from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution..., page 122:
- The brutality, the unthinking, the unreflecting character of the barbarians were so great, that the new faith, the new feelings with which they had been inspired, exercised but a very slight empire over them.
- 2010, Stefania Tutino, Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth, Oxford University Press (ISBN 9780199780587), page 270:
- […] could gain some political strength for the pope, but in so doing the pope would lose the uniqueness and supremacy of his empire over souls: […]
- 1881, François Guizot, The History of Civilization from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution..., page 122:
- French: empire
- German: Reich, Imperium
- Italian: impero
- Portuguese: império
- Russian: импе́рия
- Spanish: imperio
- French: empire
- German: Kaiserreich, Kaisertum
- Italian: impero
- Portuguese: império
- Russian: импе́рия
- Spanish: imperio
- Portuguese: império
- Russian: импе́рия
empire (not comparable)
- Alternative letter-case form of Empire#English|Empire.
Empire
Pronunciation Adjective
empire (not comparable)
- (fashion, furniture, art) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814).
- (of a woman's dress) Having the waistline just below the bust; featuring an empire waist.
- (Britain, dated, of wine) Produced in a dependency of the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations.
- CDP in Stanislaus County, California.
- CDP in Washoe County, Nevada.
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