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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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land
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: l?nd, IPA(key): /lænd/, [?e??nd]
- Rhymes: -ænd
Etymology 1
From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land? (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (l?do), from Proto-Slavic *l?da (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).
Noun
land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- Most insects live on land.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
- There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
- A country or region.
- They come from a faraway land.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes
- (often in combination) realm, domain.
- I'm going to Disneyland.
- Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (Irish English, colloquial) A shock or fright.
- He got an awful land when the police arrived.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record (page 72)
- Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.
- 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record (page 72)
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
- (obsolete) The ground or floor.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- The plane is about to land.
- (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
- 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:
- 10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.
- 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
- Use the net to land the fish.
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (transitive) To deliver. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.
- Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old English hland.
Noun
land (uncountable)
- lant; urine
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]
Noun
land (plural lande)
- country; nation
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lan?/, [lan?]
- Rhymes: -and
Etymology 1
From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, cognate with English land, German Land.
Noun
land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)
- country (a geographical area that is politically independent)
- Synonyms: stat, nation
- (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
- land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
- (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise
Usage notes
In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.
Inflection
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
land
- imperative of lande
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nt/
- Hyphenation: land
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Noun
land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)
- land; country
- land (part of Earth not covered by water)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: land
- ? Sranan Tongo: lanti
Etymology 2
Verb
land
- first-person singular present indicative of landen
- imperative of landen
Elfdalian
Etymology
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.
Noun
land n
- country; nation
Declension
Faroese
Etymology 1
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Noun
land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)
- land
- coast
- country, nation
- ground, soil
- the state
Declension
Related terms
- landa
Etymology 2
From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?, from Proto-Indo-European *kl?n- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).
Noun
land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)
- (uncountable) urine
Declension
Gothic
Romanization
land
- Romanization of ????????????????
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lant/
- Rhymes: -ant
Noun
land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)
- (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
- (countable) country
- (uncountable) countryside, country
- (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
- (countable) tracts of land, an estate
Declension
Derived terms
Middle English
Noun
land
- Alternative form of lond
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?n?/
- Rhymes: -?n?
Etymology 1
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Noun
land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)
- country
- land
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
land
- imperative of lande
References
- “land” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?n?/, /l?nd/ (example of pronunciation)
Etymology 1
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.
Noun
land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)
- country
- Noreg er eit land i nord.
- Norway is a country in the north.
- Noreg er eit land i nord.
- land
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?.
Noun
land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)
- urine from livestock
References
- “land” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.
Noun
land n (genitive lanz, plural land)
- land
- 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.
- Mæth logh skal land byggæs.
- With law shall land be built.
- Mæth logh skal land byggæs.
- 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.
Declension
Descendants
- Danish: land
Old English
Alternative forms
- lond, lænd
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant (Dutch land), Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nd/
Noun
land n
- land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
- a country
- region within a country: district, province
- the country, countryside
- owned or tilled land, an estate
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- belandian (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
- belendan (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
- ?elandian (“to land, to become land”)
- ?elendan (“to near, land, or come into lands as wealth”)
- lendan (“to come to land”)
Descendants
- Middle English: lond
- English: land
- Scots: laund, land
- Yola: lhoan, lone
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “land”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old Irish
Noun
land ?
- Alternative spelling of lann
Mutation
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic ???????????????? (land).
Noun
land n (genitive lands, plural l?nd)
- land
Declension
Descendants
- Icelandic: land
- Faroese: land
- Norn: land
- Norwegian: land
- Old Swedish: land
- Elfdalian: land
- Swedish: land
- Old Danish: land
- Danish: land
- Scanian: lann
- Gutnish: land, lande, landi
References
- land inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *land.
Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nd/
Noun
land n
- land
Declension
Descendants
- Middle Low German: lant
- Dutch Low Saxon: laand
- German Low German: Land
- Plautdietsch: Launt
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.
Noun
land n
- land
Declension
Descendants
- Elfdalian: land
- Swedish: land
Polish
Etymology
From German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lant/
Noun
land m inan
- Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
- (Pozna?) countryside (rural area)
- Synonyms: prowincja, wie?
Declension
Further reading
- land in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- land in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From German Land
Noun
land n (plural landuri)
- land (German and Austrian province)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From German Land.
Noun
land m (plural lands)
- one of the federal states of Germany
Further reading
- “land” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /land/, [l?an??d?], (colloquial) /lan/
- Rhymes: -and
Noun
land n
- a land, a country, a nation, a state
- (uncountable) land, ground, earth, territory; as opposed to sea or air
- (uncountable) land, countryside, earth, ground suitable for farming; as opposed to towns and cities
- a garden plot, short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground for growing vegetables, flowers, etc.
Declension
Synonyms
- (country): nation
- (neither sea nor air): backe, landbacke, mark
- (ground suitable for farming): mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)
Derived terms
References
- land in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Zealandic
Etymology
From Middle Dutch lant
Noun
land n (plural [please provide])
- land
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