as in king
a man who rules an empire
Roman emperors
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Recent Examples of emperor
For centuries, the land was the private dwelling of emperors and pontiffs until 2014, when Pope Francis opened the papal gardens to the public.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Immediately, the elderly, mere-hours-away-from-dying emperor starts boasting.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Festival reviews for these indie sales titles are like a Roman emperor’s thumb edict in the Colosseum.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Hackberry acts as a larval food source for butterflies, such as the question mark and the emperor.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
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Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Immediately, the elderly, mere-hours-away-from-dying emperor starts boasting.
—Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Festival reviews for these indie sales titles are like a Roman emperor’s thumb edict in the Colosseum.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
Hackberry acts as a larval food source for butterflies, such as the question mark and the emperor.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emperor
Noun
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In the 1600s the British parliament firmly established its predominance over the king, while Europe saw the rise of absolute monarchies in the then-great continental powers of Spain and France.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Fort Lauderdale alerted residents that the heavy rain in recent days, coupled with king tides, put some major roads in the city underwater this week.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For Machado and the Venezuelan opposition, embracing a narrative in which Maduro is a drug lord, not just a dictator, is a bit of a gamble.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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Screenwriter Michael Lesslie oversaw this adaptation, which carries with it unfortunate relics of an earlier time — not the iambic pentameter, which is sacred, but references to kings and lords and a royal society that doesn’t translate one bit to the modern corporate world.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Around the same time, William and Kate attended a commemorative event for the late sovereign less than 10 miles away in Sunningdale.—
Max Foster,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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Credit rating agencies are sharpening their focus on climate vulnerability, raising questions about whether sectors or sovereigns with large protection gaps could face higher borrowing costs.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Why don’t all the rich potentates, sheiks, oligarchs and MAGA dictators meet and fix it?—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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With the pandemic, the year-round population of a once-seasonal resort town swelled with Manhattan refugees, those in the Trump orbit, and tech and finance potentates, many of them serious collectors like Ken Griffin and Steve Ross.—
Ben Widdicombe,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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“Emperor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emperor. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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