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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

Etymology

From Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regi?, from reg?.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?j??n, IPA^(key): /??i?d??n?/
• Rhymes: -i?d??n

Noun

region (plural regions)

1. Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.

2. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
   1. (historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
   2. An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
   3. A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
   4. (Ontario) Ellipsis of regional municipality, a county-level municipality, a county administered as a municipality.
   5. Ellipsis of administrative region
      1. A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.
3. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
4. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

5. (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
6. (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

Derived terms

• region-wide, regionwide

Related terms

Translations

References

• region in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Further reading

• "region" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 264.

Anagrams

• Regino, eringo, ignore, ingoer

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?.

Noun

region c (singular definite regionen, plural indefinite regioner)

1. region

Inflection

Derived terms

Indonesian

Etymology

From English region, from Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regi?, from reg?. Doublet of regio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [re??i?n]
• Hyphenation: ré?gi?on

Noun

region (first-person possessive regionku, second-person possessive regionmu, third-person possessive regionnya)

1. region: an administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

   Synonyms: daerah, kawasan

Related terms

Further reading

• “region” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

region (plural regiones)

1. region

Ladin

Alternative forms

• raion

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regio, regionem.

Noun

region f (plural regions)

1. region

Middle English

Noun

region

1. Alternative form of regioun

Middle French

Etymology

Latin regi?.

Noun

region f (plural regions)

1. region (area, district, etc.)

Descendants

• French: région
  • ? Romanian: regiune

References

• region on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?.

Noun

region m (definite singular regionen, indefinite plural regioner, definite plural regionene)

1. a region

Derived terms

References

• “region” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?.

Noun

region m (definite singular regionen, indefinite plural regionar, definite plural regionane)

1. a region

Derived terms

References

• “region” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin regi?.

Noun

region f (plural regions)

1. region

Related terms

• regional

Polish

Etymology

From German Region, from Latin regi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r???.j?n/

Noun

region m inan

1. region, area, district

   Synonyms: rejon, obszar, dzielnica, obwód, kraina

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• region in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• r?gija (Croatia)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regi?.

Noun

regì?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) region
2. (Croatia, derogatory) the area of former Yugoslavia

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regio.

Noun

region c

1. region, area

Declension

Related terms

• regional
• regionförbund
• stödregion
• Västra Götalandsregionen