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
21 February 2025
(noun) some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed; “the restoration looked exactly like the original”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.