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empire
/ˈɛmˌpaɪ̯ɹ/
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What does empire mean?
noun
- A political state, often a monarchy, that has achieved a much greater current size than its initial size by conquering surrounding territories, cities or nations.
- A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
- The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.
More meanings (22)
noun
- An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
- control, dominion, sway.
adjective
- Alternative letter-case form of Empire.
- Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814).
- Having the waistline just below the bust; featuring an empire waist.
- (dated) Produced in a dependency of the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations.
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Chicot County, Arkansas.
- A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
- A town in Clear Creek County, Colorado, named after the Empire State.
- A census-designated place and former town in Dodge County and Bleckley County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Christian County, Kentucky.
- A census-designated place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
- A township and village therein, in Leelanau County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Butler County, Missouri.
- A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada.
- A village in Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.
- A district of the city of Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon.
- A town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
- A former community in Goshen County, Wyoming.
- A number of other townships, listed under Empire Township.
- (dated) Clipping of British Empire.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛmˌpaɪ̯ɹ/
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In a few of them, however, commerce nearly divides its empire, and in most of them has a considerable share of influence.
Scant not my cups, and make as much of me As when mine empire was your fellow too And suffered my command.
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But, when the empire was once invaded, they bethought themselves of sharing the land, just as they shared spoils after a victory.
We have already seen that the fear of their ideas was one of the principal causes of the restoration of the Empire.
The importance of this can only be estimated when we consider the prevalence of the use of the drug throughout the empire.