empress
(noun) a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
Source: WordNet® 3.1
empress (plural empresses)
The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
(tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
(rare) A female chimpanzee.
A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
empress (third-person singular simple present empresses, present participle empressing, simple past and past participle empressed)
Rare form of impress.
Named in 1913 for Queen Victoria, who was Empress of India.
Empress
A village in Alberta, Canada.
Source: Wiktionary
Em"press, n. Etym: [OE. empress, emperice, OF. empereis, empereris, fr. L. imperatrix, fem. of imperator. See Emperor.]
1. The consort of an emperor. Shak.
2. A female sovereign.
3. A sovereign mistress. "Empress of my soul." Shak. Empress cloth, a cloth for ladies' dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 January 2025
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
Espresso is both a coffee beverage and a brewing method that originated in Italy. When making an espresso, a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure forces through finely-ground coffee beans. It has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages. Its smaller serving size will take three shots to equal a mug of standard brewed coffee.