empress dowager
empress dowager noun: the mother or widow of an emperor, especially in a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese empire.
Noun
empress dowager (plural empress dowagers or empresses dowager or empresses dowagers)
empress dowager meaning in Arabic, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese
empress dowager in Arabic
- mother of an emperor
- إِمْبِرَاطُورَة الأُمّ
empress dowager in Indonesian
- mother of an emperor
- janda permaisuri
empress dowager in Thai
- mother of an emperor
- ฮองไทเฮา
empress dowager in Vietnamese
- mother of an emperor
- hoàng thái hậu, thái hậu
Forms of empress dowager
| plural | empress dowagers |
|---|---|
| plural | empresses dowager |
| plural | empresses dowagers |
Questions about empress dowager
- What does empress dowager mean?
- Empress dowager means the mother or widow of an emperor, especially in a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese empire.
- What is empress dowager in Arabic?
- Empress dowager in Arabic is إِمْبِرَاطُورَة الأُمّ. See Empress dowager meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is empress dowager?
- Empress dowager is a noun.
- What is the plural of empress dowager?
- The plural of empress dowager is empress dowagers.
Words near empress dowager in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: empress dowager (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “empress dowager.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/empress_dowager. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.