empresses

noun

plural of empress
as in emperors

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  1. emperors
  2. kings
  3. princes
  4. princesses
  5. queens
  6. lords
  7. czars
  8. rulers
Noun
  • Roman emperors typically had tens of thousands of people serving in the Praetorian Guard; modern autocrats rely on standing armies.
    — Seva Gunitsky, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Failing to recognize that flaw has been the downfall of emperors and autocrats.
    — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of emperors
Noun
  • Mick and Kip climb out of the car and stretch at their leisure like a couple of young kings.
    — George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
  • How far might a nation go that had no kings to depose, no entrenched hierarchies to uproot, a country so young and iconoclastic and resource-rich?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of kings
Noun
  • Modern-day courtiers and princes–to say nothing of bureaucrats–should not be the ones deciding what gets made and who gets to see it.
    — Christopher Koopman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Fictional princes fill pop culture, from heroic leaders in science fiction empires to charming ones in modern takes on classic fairy tales.
    — Sarah Scott, Parents, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of princes
Noun
  • The changes include allowing the adoption of distant male relatives raised as commoners to become royals and father future heirs, and letting princesses keep their royal status after marrying commoners.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Previously, princesses who marry a commoner had to renounce their royal status and leave the royal family.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of princesses
Noun
  • This earlier Russell work did not include acid queens, pinball wizards, or teenage-wasteland messiahs.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Rihanna, Beyoncé — of course the OG queens, the Patti LaBelles, the Stephanie Mills, all of them like that.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of queens
Noun
  • In early English law, the silva forestis was a place for lords to chase game and for ordinary people to gather wood.
    — James Whorton Jr, Longreads, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Colombian police have arrested the wife and daughter of one of Ecuador's most powerful drug lords who was extradited to the United States last year, President Abelardo de la Espriella said Sunday.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of lords
Noun
  • Many of its stations look as though they were built for the tsars, clad in precious marble and adorned with mosaics, crystal chandeliers, sculptures, and gilded moldings.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Buccellati’s New Caviar Bar Caviar rose to the fore as a delicacy by Russian czars amid the opulence of the 19th and early 20th century, around the same time Italian jeweler Buccellati was born.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of czars
Noun
  • Two lasers replace hardware Optical frequency combs work much like rulers for light.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • To varying degrees, respondents in these countries—Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudia Arabia, and Turkey—expressed an increasing preference for liberal values, even as their rulers sought to suppress popular demands for democratic change.
    — Mansoor Moaddel, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026
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