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
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
