empress

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Etymology 1

emperor +‎ -ess

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛmpɹəs/, SAMPA: /"Empr\@s/

Noun

empress (plural empresses)

1. The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler (e.g. Persian shah).
2. The female monarch of an empire.

Related terms

• emperor

Translations

wife or widow of an emperor

Arabic: إمبراطورة (ar) ('imbraaTuura) f., زوجة إمبراطور (ar) (zawjat 'imbraaTuur) f. Armenian: կայսրուհի (hy) (kaysruhi) Bengali: সম্রাজ্ঞী (bn) Catalan: emperadriu (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 皇后 (cmn) (huánghòu), 女皇 (cmn) (nǚhuáng) Czech: císařovna (cs) f. Danish: kejserinde (da) c., (widow of an emperor:) enkekejserinde (da) c. Dutch: keizerin (nl) f. Esperanto: imperiestrino (eo) Finnish: keisarinna (fi) German: Kaiserin (de) f. Greek: αυτοκράτειρα (el) f. Hungarian: császárné (hu)

Irish: banimpire (ga) m. Japanese: 皇后 (ja) (こうごう, kōgō) Khmer: អធិរាជិនី (km) (atʰiriechinii) Lithuanian: imperatorienė (lt) f. Macedonian: царица (mk) (сárica) f., императорка (mk) (imperátorka) f. Malay: maharani (ms) Manx: ard-venrein (gv) f. Norwegian: Bokmål: keiserinne (no) Nynorsk: keisarinne (nn) Romanian: împărăteasă (ro) f. Russian: императрица (ru) (imperatríca) f. Slovene: cesarica (sl) f. West Frisian: keizerinne (fy) c.

female monarch of an empire

Arabic: إمبراطورة (ar) ('imbiraTuura) f. Armenian: կայսրուհի (hy) (kaysruhi) Catalan: emperadriu (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 皇后 (cmn) (huánghòu), 女皇 (cmn) (nǚhuáng) Czech: císařovna (cs) f. Danish: kejserinde (da) c. Dutch: keizerin (nl) f. Esperanto: imperiestrino (eo) Finnish: keisarinna (fi) French: impératrice (fr) f. German: Kaiserin (de) f. Greek: αυτοκράτειρα (el) f. Hungarian: császárnő (hu) Irish: banimpire (ga) m.

Japanese: 女帝 (ja) (じょてい, jotei) Khmer: អធិរាជិនី (km) (atʰiriechinii) Lithuanian: imperatorė (lt) f. Macedonian: царица (mk) (cárica) f., императорка (mk) (imperátorka) f. Manx: ard-venrein (gv) f. Norwegian: Bokmål: keiserinne (no) Nynorsk: keisarinne (nn) Portuguese: imperatriz (pt) f. Romanian: împărăteasă (ro) f. Russian: императрица (ru) (imperatríca) f. Slovene: cesarica (sl) f. Turkish: imparatoriçe (tr) f. West Frisian: keizerinne (fy) c.

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Serbo-Croatian: carica f., imperatorka f. Finnish: šaahitar (fi) Italian: imperatrice f. Korean: 황후 (hwanghu) Latin: imperatrix Marathi: महाराणी (mahārānī)

Scottish Gaelic: àrd-bhainrìgh f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: царица f., императорка f. Latin: carica f., imperatorka f. Slovak: cisárovná f., cárovná f. (of Russia, Bulgaria) Turkish: imparatoriçe

Verb

empress (third-person singular simple present empresses, present participle empressing, simple past and past participle empressed)

1. Alternative form of impress.