HOW TO PRONOUNCE
czar
/zɑɹ/
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What does czar mean?
noun
- Alternative spelling of tsar (especially common in American English)
- (informal) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
proper noun
- A village in Alberta, Canada.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
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IPA pronunciation
/zɑɹ/
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The committee appointed to deal with the petitions in the Emperor’s name, decided not even to make a report to the Czar.
Shortly before, the Czar of Moscow had sent ambassadors to congratulate him, to renew his alliance, and even to offer him troops.
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Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
They then shut their gates, defying patriarch, council, and Czar, until, after a struggle lasting seven years, their monastery was besieged and taken by an imperial army.
It is as if some great magnifico male, some inordinate czar or kaiser, should step down from the throne to play dominoes with him behind the door.