emperor

Meaning of emperor

noun

a sovereign ruler of an empire.
he became emperor in 1930
he is regarded as one of the greatest Roman emperors
an orange and brown North American butterfly with a swift dodging flight, breeding chiefly on hackberries.

Middle English (especially representing the title given to the head of the Roman Empire): from Old French emperere, from Latin imperator ‘military commander’, from imperare ‘to command’, from in- ‘towards’ + parare ‘prepare, contrive’.

Information about emperor

It is a name.
The plural form of emperor is: emperors.
Languages in which emperor is used:
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- English

Hyphenation of emperor

em-peror

It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
emperor is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

emperor synonyms

Meaning a person exercising government or dominion:

ruler

Meaning a supreme ruler, especially a monarch:

sovereign

Meaning the male ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth:

king

Meaning a title given to rulers and officials in central Asia, Afghanistan, and certain other Muslim countries:

khan

Meaning an emperor of Russia before 1917:

tsar

Meaning the German Emperor, the Emperor of Austria, or the head of the Holy Roman Empire:

kaiser

Meaning a title given to the emperor of Japan:

mikado

Meaning commander (a title conferred under the Republic on a victorious general and under the Empire on the emperor):

imperator

Meaning the ruler of a nation or people:

ethnarch

Meaning a ruler who has absolute power:

autarch

Translation of emperor

German: Kaiser
Italian: imperatore
French: empereur
Spanish: emperador

Words that rhyme with emperor

surrenderor, verderor, affeeror, offeror, transferor, antiemperor, archemperor, coemperor, disperor, preemperor, Conqueror, Konqueror, coconqueror, conqueror, reconqueror, deliveror, recoveror

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