empress

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  1. noun The woman ruler of an empire.
  2. noun The wife or widow of an emperor.

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  • She was an empress, and all youths were her slaves. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
  • Under the canopy was the double throne for the emperor and empress, and near it seats for the royal princesses, all covered with crimson velvet trimmed with gold When the appointed hour arrived the procession was formed at the royal palace, and moved toward the Cathedral through a dense and compact mass of spectators that every where thronged the way. —  Peter the Great
  • The vast history of Trogus Pompeius was soon forgotten and finally perished, after the excellent epitome of it by Justin, who winnowed the abundant chaff from the grain Bayle gives very excellent advice to an Abridger, Xiphilin, in his "Abridgment of Dion," takes no notice of a circumstance very material for entering into the character of Domitian:--the recalling the empress Domitia after having turned her away for her intrigues with a player. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
  • But the empress was constantly fretting herself to find some way of recognizing her own son, for as their faces were alike and their clothes precisely the same, she often could not distinguish one from the other. —  Roumanian Fairy Tales
  • When the wind blew and stirred the leaves, they listened to their rustling, and it seemed as if the empress was passing by, drawing her silken train after her. —  Roumanian Fairy Tales
 

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  1. Middle English emperesse, from Old French, feminine of empereor, emperor; see emperor.

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  1. from Middle English empresse, emperesse, emperes, emperise, emperice, emprise, imperes, from Old French empereis, empereris, empereresse, French impératrice = Provencal emperairitz = Spanish emperatriz = Portuguese imperatriz = Italian imperatrice, from Latin imperatrix, inperatrix, accusative -tricem, feminine of imperator, inperator, emperor: see emperor.
 

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/ˈɛmprɛs/
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