empire

Meaning of empire

noun
  1. an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state.
    the Roman Empire
  2. a large commercial organization owned or controlled by one person or group.
    her business empire grew
adjective
  1. denoting a style of furniture, decoration, or dress fashionable chiefly during the First Empire in France. The decorative style was neoclassical but marked by an interest in Egyptian and other ancient motifs.
  2. denoting produce from the Commonwealth.

Middle English: via Old French from Latin imperium, related to imperare ‘to command’ (see emperor).

Information about empire

Hyphenation of empire

em-pire

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • empire is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

empire synonyms

Meaning imperium:

imperium

Meaning conglomerate:

conglomerate

Meaning Empire:

Empire

Meaning a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen:

kingdom

Meaning a kingdom:

realm

Meaning an area of territory owned or controlled by a particular ruler or government:

domain

Meaning an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state:

territory

Meaning a principal administrative division of a country or empire:

province

Meaning an independent country or community, especially a democratic republic:

commonwealth

Meaning a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs:

federation

Meaning an organization which consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league:

confederation

Meaning the ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way:

power

Meaning a very powerful and influential nation (used especially with reference to the US and the former Soviet Union when these were perceived as the two most powerful nations in the world):

superpower

Meaning the official power to make legal decisions and judgements:

jurisdiction

Meaning an organized group of people with a particular purpose, such as a business or government department:

organization

Meaning a large company or group of companies authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law:

corporation

Meaning a company operating in several countries:

multinational

Meaning an association, typically of several companies:

consortium

Meaning a commercial business:

company

Meaning a person's regular occupation, profession, or trade:

business

Meaning having a solid, almost unyielding surface or structure:

firm

Meaning the action of functioning or the fact of being active or in effect:

operation

Meaning an organization founded for a religious, educational, professional, or social purpose:

institution

Meaning the action of establishing something or being established:

establishment

Meaning the physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal:

body

Translation of empire

Anagrams of empire

epimer, premie

Words that rhyme with empire

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