emperor

See also: Emperor

English

Alternative forms

emperour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English emperour, from Old French empereor (Modern French empereur), from Latin imperātor (“emperor; commander”), from imperāre (“to command”). Doublet of imperator.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmpəɹə/, /ˈɛmpɹə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmpəɹɚ/, /ˈɛmpɹɚ/
(General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈempɘɹɘ/, /ˈempɹɘ/
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Noun

emperor (plural emperors)

The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
- (Can we date this quote?), Sri Ramana Maharishi
  Even an emperor is no match for a man with no wants.
(political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.
The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
- 2001, Paul Webley, The economic psychology of everyday life, page 39:
  But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies, emperors, etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles […]
Any fish of the family Lethrinidae.

Usage notes

An emperor is generally addressed as His Imperial Majesty.

Hyponyms

barracks emperor

Derived terms

emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)
emperor goose (Anser canagicus)
emperor moth (Saturniinae)
emperor paper
emperorship
little emperor

Related terms

Translations

ruler of an empire

Albanian: perandor (sq) m
Arabic: قَيْصَر‎ m (qayṣar), إِمْبْرَاطُور‎ m (ʾimbrāṭūr)
Armenian: կայսր (hy) (kaysr)
Old Armenian: կայսր (kaysr), կեսար (kesar)
Aromanian: ampirat m
Asturian: emperador m
Azerbaijani: imperator
Belarusian: імпера́тар m (impjerátar), цар m (car) (tsar)
Bengali: সম্রাট (sômraṭ)
Breton: impalaer (br)
Bulgarian: импера́тор (bg) m (imperátor), цар (bg) m (car) (tsar)
Burmese: ဧကရာဇ် (my) (eka.raj)
Catalan: emperador (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 皇帝 (wong⁴ dai³)

Dungan: хуонди (huondi), хуоншон (huonšon)

Mandarin: 皇帝 (zh) (huángdì), 帝王 (zh) (dìwáng), 天皇 (zh) (tiānhuáng) (of Japan), 皇上 (zh) (huángshang)
Czech: císař (cs) m
Danish: kejser (da) c
Dutch: keizer (nl) m
Esperanto: imperiestro
Estonian: keiser (et), imperaator
Extremaduran: emperaol m
Finnish: keisari (fi)
French: empereur (fr) m
Friulian: imperadôr m
Galician: emperador m
Georgian: იმპერატორი (imṗeraṭori)
German: Kaiser (de) m, Imperator m
Greek: αυτοκράτορας (el) m (aftokrátoras)
Ancient: αὐτοκράτωρ m (autokrátōr), καῖσαρ m (kaîsar), αὐτάναξ m (autánax)
Hebrew: קיסר \ קֵיסָר‎ (he) m (kesár, keysár)
Hindi: सम्राट m (samrāṭ)
Hungarian: császár (hu)
Icelandic: keisari (is) m
Ido: cezaro (io), imperiestro (io)
Indonesian: kaisar (id), maharaja (id)
Interlingua: imperator
Irish: impire m
Italian: imperatore (it) m
Japanese: 皇帝 (ja) (こうてい, kōtei) (emperor in general), 帝王 (ja) (ていおう, teiō) (general term for emperor or monarch), 天皇 (ja) (てんのう, tennō) (emperor of Japan)
Kazakh: император (ïmperator)
Khmer: អធិរាជ (km) (ʾaʾthiriəc), រាជាធិរាជ (riəciə thiriəc), សម្រាជ (km) (sɑmraac)
Korean: 황제 (ko) (hwangje), 천황 (ko) (cheonhwang) (of Japan)
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: emperator (ku), qeyser (ku)
Kyrgyz: император (ky) (imperator)
Lao: ຈັກກະພັດ (chak ka phat), ຈັກກະວັດ (chak ka wat), ນໍຣິນ (nǭ rin), ນໍລິນ (nǭ lin), ຣາເຊນ (rā sēn)
Latin: imperātor (la) m
Latvian: imperators m, ķeizars m
Lithuanian: imperatorius m, ciesorius m
Low German:
German Low German: Kaiser

Luxembourgish: Keeser m
Macedonian: импера́тор m (imperátor), цар m (car) (tsar)
Malay: kaisar, maharaja, khakan
Malayalam: സാമ്രാട്ട് (sāmrāṭṭŭ)
Mandinka: mansa
Manx: ard-ree m
Maori: emepara, epara
Marathi: सम्राट m (samrāṭ)
Middle English: emperour
Mongolian: эзэн хаан (ezen haan)
Norman: empéreu m (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: keiser (no) m

Nynorsk: keisar m
Occitan: emperador (oc) m
Old Occitan: emperador
Old English: cāsere m
Persian: امپراطور‎ (fa) (emperâtor)
Polish: imperator (pl) m, cesarz (pl) m
Portuguese: imperador (pt) m
Punjabi: ਸਮਰਾਟ (pa) (samrāṭ)
Quechua: qhapaq
Romanian: împărat (ro) m
Romansch: imperatur m, imperataur m, imperatour m, caiser m
Russian: импера́тор (ru) m (imperátor), царь (ru) m (carʹ) (tsar)
Sanskrit: अधिराज (sa) m (adhirāja), सम्राज् (sa) m (samrāj)
Scottish Gaelic: ìmpire m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ца̏р m, импѐра̄тор m, це̏са̄р m

Latin: cȁr (sh) m, impèrātor (sh) m, cȅsār (sh) m
Sicilian: mpiraturi
Slovak: cisár (sk) m, cár (sk) m (of Russia, Bulgaria)
Slovene: cêsar (sl) m, imperátor m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kejžor m

Upper Sorbian: kejžor m
Spanish: emperador (es) m
Swahili: kaisari
Swedish: kejsare (sv) c
Tagalog: baginda, emperador (tl)
Tajik: император (imperator)
Thai: จักรพรรดิ (jàk-grà-pát), ฮ่องเต้ (hɔ̂ng-dtêe) (emperor of China)
Turkish: imparator (tr), ilhan (tr)
Turkmen: imperator
Ukrainian: імпера́тор m (imperátor), цар (uk) m (car) (tsar)
Urdu: سمراٹ‎ m (samrāṭ)
Uzbek: imperator (uz)
Venetian: inperadore m, inperador m
Vietnamese: hoàng đế (vi), thiên hoàng (of Japan)
Vilamovian: kazer m
Walloon: impreur (wa) m
Welsh: ymerawdwr m
Yiddish: קייסער‎ m (keyser), אימפּעראַטאָר‎ m (imperator)

fourth trump or major arcana card

Anagrams

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