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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A woman who rules over an empire; a woman invested with imperial power or sovereignty.
  2. n. The wife or the widow of an emperor: in the latter case called specifically empress dowager.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
  2. n. The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler (e.g. Persian shah).
  3. v. Alternative form of impress.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The consort of an emperor.
  2. n. A female sovereign.
  3. n. A sovereign mistress.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor

Etymologies

  1. emperor +‎ -ess (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English emperesse, from Old French, feminine of empereor, emperor; see emperor. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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