variants
or less commonly tsarina
or tzarina
: the wife of a czar
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The children spent time with their older half-siblings from their parents’ first marriages, as well as their cousins, the five children of Nicholas and his czarina, Alexandra.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2025
But this all comes at the end of this addictively chronicled history, in six parts, of a deluded autocrat and his equally imperious czarina, German-born and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
—Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019
There is a new gambling czarina — Governor Charlie Baker appointed Cathy Judd-Stein to the post in January.
—Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
Almost to the end, the czar and czarina—secure in their faith that they are adored—scoff at all indicators to the contrary as rumors or malicious lies.
—Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019
Tamim’s younger sister, Mayassa, is Qatar’s culture czarina — an art world behemoth who, at the age of 30, had an estimated annual budget of $1 billion.
—Written By Declan Walsh; Photographs By Tomas Munita, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
There, King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski was trying to rebuild the nation’s strength despite the menacing influence of Russian czarina Catherine the Great, his former lover and patron.
—Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
Rumor and street culture—jokes, postcards, sayings, bawdy plays performed in saloons—changed the image of the czar and the czarina, desacralized them, before and during the war.
—Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
And Thrive Global, the wellness-crusading company that new media czarina Arianna Huffington founded nearly a year ago, didn’t invent downtime.
—Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2017
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2025
But this all comes at the end of this addictively chronicled history, in six parts, of a deluded autocrat and his equally imperious czarina, German-born and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
—Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019
There is a new gambling czarina — Governor Charlie Baker appointed Cathy Judd-Stein to the post in January.
—Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
Almost to the end, the czar and czarina—secure in their faith that they are adored—scoff at all indicators to the contrary as rumors or malicious lies.
—Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 27 June 2019
Tamim’s younger sister, Mayassa, is Qatar’s culture czarina — an art world behemoth who, at the age of 30, had an estimated annual budget of $1 billion.
—Written By Declan Walsh; Photographs By Tomas Munita, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
There, King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski was trying to rebuild the nation’s strength despite the menacing influence of Russian czarina Catherine the Great, his former lover and patron.
—Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2017
Rumor and street culture—jokes, postcards, sayings, bawdy plays performed in saloons—changed the image of the czar and the czarina, desacralized them, before and during the war.
—Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
And Thrive Global, the wellness-crusading company that new media czarina Arianna Huffington founded nearly a year ago, didn’t invent downtime.
—Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2017
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“Czarina.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/czarina. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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