czar

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The word czar comes from the Russian tsar which in turn was derived from the Latin Caesar.

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  1. noun A male monarch or emperor, especially one of the emperors who ruled Russia until the revolution of 1917.
  2. noun A person having great power; an autocrat: "the square-jawed, ruddy complacency of Jack Farrell, the czar of the Fifteenth Street police station” (Ernest Hemingway).
  3. noun Informal An appointed official having special powers to regulate or supervise an activity: a racetrack czar; an energy czar.
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  • The czar, his wife Alexandra and their son and four daughters were fatally shot on July —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • The czar, his wife Alexandra and their son and four daughters were shot dead on July 17, 1918 in a basement room of a merchant's house where they were held in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg. —  Daily Express News Feeds
  • The word czar comes from the Russian tsar which in turn was derived from the Latin Caesar. —  South Dakota Politics
  • After years of effort by the descendants of the czar, the Romanovs were finally —  Taipei Times
  • The czar, his wife Alexandra and their son and four daughters were fatally shot on July 17, —  Taipei Times
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  1. Russian tsar', from Old Russian tsĭsarĭ, emperor, king, from Old Church Slavonic tsěsarĭ, from Gothic kaisar, from Greek, from Latin Caesar, emperor; see caesar.
 

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