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Noun edit · The male monarch or ruler of an empire. · Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an ...

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/ˈemp(ə)rər/
noun
  1. a sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire.
    "he became emperor in 1930"
    synonyms: ruler, sovereign, king, monarch, potentate, lord, overlord, khan, tsar, kaiser, mikado, imperator, ethnarch, autarch
  2. an orange and brown North American butterfly with a swift dodging flight, breeding chiefly on hackberries.

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The word emperor can mean the male ruler of an empire. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), mother/grandmother ...
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The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC.
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Borrowed from Old French empire, empere, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare ...