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empire
English
Etymology
From Middle English empire, from Old French empire, empere, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”). Doublet of empery and imperium.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?m?p??, ?m?p?-?, IPA(key): /??mpa??/, /??mpa?.?/
- (General American) enPR: ?m?p?r', ?m?p?'?r, IPA(key): /??m?pa??/, /??m?pa??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
- Hyphenation: em?pire
Noun
empire (plural empires)
- A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority.
- A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
- A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
- An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
- 2002, Evelyn L. Damore, The Rattle and Hiss of the Tin Gods, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 111:
- “Revenues for Jackson's non-profit empire sky-rocketed from $4 million in 1997, to more than $14 million just two years later.”
- 2009, Martin Short, The Rise of the Mafia, Kings Road Publishing (?ISBN)
- The Mafia never forgave Castro but Lansky had already laid the foundations of a mob gambling empire all over the Caribbean […]
- 2002, Evelyn L. Damore, The Rattle and Hiss of the Tin Gods, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 111:
- (Absolute) control, dominion, sway.
- 1881, François Guizot, The History of Civilization from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution..., page 122:
- The brutality, the unthinking, the unreflecting character of the barbarians were so great, that the new faith, the new feelings with which they had been inspired, exercised but a very slight empire over them.
- 2010, Stefania Tutino, Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 270:
- […] could gain some political strength for the pope, but in so doing the pope would lose the uniqueness and supremacy of his empire over souls: […]
- 1881, François Guizot, The History of Civilization from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution..., page 122:
Derived terms
Related terms
- emperor
- empress
- imperator
- imperatrix
- imperial
- imperially
- imperium
- imperate
- imperation
Translations
Further reading
- empire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- empire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- empire at OneLook Dictionary Search
Adjective
empire (not comparable)
- Alternative letter-case form of Empire.
Anagrams
- E-Prime, epimer, permie, premie
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?empire/, [?e?mpire?]
- Rhymes: -empire
- Syllabification: em?pi?re
Noun
empire
- (architecture) Empire style
Declension
French
Etymology 1
From Old French, from Latin imperium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.pi?/
Noun
empire m (plural empires)
- empire
- influence, authority, dominion
Derived terms
- Empire byzantin
- Empire du Milieu
- Empire ottoman
- Empire romain
- Saint-Empire romain germanique
Related terms
- empereur
- impératrice
- imperial
Descendants
- Russian: ?????? (ampír)
Etymology 2
Verb
empire
- first-person singular present indicative of empirer
- third-person singular present indicative of empirer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of empirer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of empirer
- second-person singular imperative of empirer
Further reading
- “empire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- périmé, primée
Italian
Alternative forms
- empiere
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *impl?re, present active infinitive of *impli?, from Latin imple?.
Verb
empìre (first-person singular present émpio, first-person singular past historic empìi or (less common) empiéi, past participle empìto or (less common) empiùto, auxiliary avere) (transitive)
- (uncommon, literally) to fill [+ di (object) = with]
- (figuratively) to fill, to stuff [+ di (object) = with]
- (archaic or literary) to satisfy, to satiate
Conjugation
Synonyms
- riempire
Related terms
- pieno
Anagrams
- permei
- premei
Middle English
Alternative forms
- empyre, enpyre, empyere, empere, empeyr, empir, enpir, ampyre
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French empire, empere, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”). Doublet of emperie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?pi?r(?)/, /?m?p??r(?)/, /??mpi?r(?)/, /am-/
Noun
empire
- Emperorship; the office, power or title of emperor.
- An empire; the domain of an emperor or empress.
- (rare) Total power or influence, especially when wielded by gods.
- (rare) A region of control; a field or zone.
- (rare, Christianity) God's kingdom in the heavens.
Descendants
- English: empire
- Scots: empire
References
- “emp?re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-24.
Old French
Etymology
From Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /em?pi.r?/, (late) /am?pi.r?/
Noun
empire m (oblique plural empires, nominative singular empires, nominative plural empire)
- empire
Descendants
- Middle English: empire
- English: empire
- French: empire
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civilization
English
Wikiquote
Alternative forms
- civilisation (UK)
Etymology
Borrowed from French civilisation.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?s?v.?.la??ze?.??n/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [?s?v.?.l?e?zæ?.??n]
- (US) IPA(key): /?s?v.?.l??ze?.??n/
Noun
civilization (countable and uncountable, plural civilizations)
- An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.
- (uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
- The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
- The state or quality of being civilized.
- (obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
Synonyms
- (large-scale stage of societal development): culture, order
- (group of countries): sphere
- (act of civilizing): education, acculturation
- (preferred human society): home, the land of the living
Derived terms
Related terms
- civilize
Translations
Proper noun
civilization
- Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
Translations
References
- civilization in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- civilization in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- civilization at OneLook Dictionary Search
- "civilization" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 57.
- civilization in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
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