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- Dictionaryemperor/ˈɛmp(ə)rə/
noun
- 1. a sovereign ruler of an empire: "he became emperor in 1930"
- 2. an orange and brown North American butterfly with a swift dodging flight, breeding chiefly on hackberries.
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a male ruler of an empire. Compare. empress. Examples. He'd dressed himself up as a Roman emperor for the fancy-dress party. This type of porcelain was made specifically for the Chinese emperor and the imperial household. Hirohito was Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
In general, an emperor would have one empress (Huanghou, 皇后) at one time, although posthumous entitlement to empress for a concubine was not uncommon. The earliest known usage of huanghou was in the Han dynasty. The emperor would generally select the empress from his concubines.
The meaning of EMPEROR is the sovereign or supreme male monarch of an empire. How to use emperor in a sentence. Did you know?
a male ruler of an empire. Compare. empress. Examples. He'd dressed up as a Roman emperor for the costume party. This type of porcelain was made specifically for the Chinese emperor and the imperial household. Hirohito was Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
Emperor definition: the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire. See examples of EMPEROR used in a sentence.
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a monarch who rules or reigns over an empire. 2. (Animals) Also called: emperor moth any of several large saturniid moths with eyelike markings on each wing, esp Saturnia pavonia of Europe. See also giant peacock moth. 3. (Animals) See purple emperor.
Forget prime ministers, presidents or even kings or queens: an emperor was the biggest, baddest ruler of them all — the leader of undisputed power who controlled a nation or, more usually, a number of subjugated nations known collectively as an empire.
