different between empire vs emperor

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)

1. 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.

2. A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.

3. A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
4. 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 […]

5. (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: […]

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)

1. 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

1. (architecture) Empire style

Declension

French

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Latin imperium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pi?/

Noun

empire m (plural empires)

1. empire
2. 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

1. first-person singular present indicative of empirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of empirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of empirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of empirer
5. 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)

1. (uncommon, literally) to fill [+ di (object) = with]
2. (figuratively) to fill, to stuff [+ di (object) = with]

3. (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

1. Emperorship; the office, power or title of emperor.
2. An empire; the domain of an emperor or empress.
3. (rare) Total power or influence, especially when wielded by gods.
4. (rare) A region of control; a field or zone.
5. (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)

1. empire

Descendants

• Middle English: empire
  • English: empire
• French: empire

English

Alternative forms

• emperour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English emperour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman emperour and Old French empereor (Modern French empereur), from Latin imper?tor (“emperor; commander”), from imper?re (“to command”). Doublet of imperator.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??mp???/, /??mp??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??mp???/, /??mp??/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?emp???/, /?emp??/

Noun

emperor (plural emperors)

1. The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
   • 1885, Miguel de Cervantes, John Ormsby (translator), Don Quixote Volume 2 Chapter XXIV

     They asked Julius Caesar, the valiant Roman emperor, what was the best death. He answered, that which is unexpected, which comes suddenly and unforeseen

2. Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean when consort to emperor
   • 1994 Het Spinhuis, Transactions: Essays in Honor of Jeremy F. Boissevain

     In 690 Wu usurped the throne and became Emperor herself, which proved a unique event in the history of China.

   • 2002 The Heritage of World Civilizations: To 1700 page 226

     After his death in 683 she ruled for seven years as regent and then, deposing her son, became emperor herself, the only woman in Chinese history to hold the title.

   • 2008 Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation page 211

     Empress, imperial regent, and even emperor herself (r. 797–802), Irene was an important and powerful figure at the Byzantine court in the late eighth and early ninth century.

   • 2013 Voyages in World History page 213

     Originally the wife of the emperor, she engineered the imperial succession so that she could serve first as regent to a boy emperor and then as emperor herself.

   • 2016, Commander Pakydus, "Sindbad & the 7 Galaxies"

     Where is Sindbad? I have a summons for him direct from the galactic emperor herself. He is to be brought here immediately to give an explanation for his recent actions.

3. (political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.

4. The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
5. A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
6. Any fish of the family Lethrinidae.
7. (entomology) Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Charaxinae.
8. (entomology) Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus Anax.

Usage notes

• The only monarch presently styled "emperor" is the Emperor of Japan (??, tenn?). The British monarch ceased to be styled Emperor of India in 1948.
• An emperor is generally addressed as His Imperial Majesty.

Hyponyms

• barracks emperor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• per orem