empresses
empresses is the plural of empress.
empresses is the plural of empresse.
empresses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of empress.
Meaning of empress
Noun
empress (plural empresses)
- The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
- Sit downe by her: adorned with my Crowne,
As if thou wert the Empreſſe of the world.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- Sit downe by her: adorned with my Crowne,
- The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
- Empress, imperial regent, and even emperor herself (r. 797–802), Irene was an important and powerful figure at the Byzantine court in the late eighth and early ninth century.2008, Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation, page 211
- The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
- A female chimpanzee.
- A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
- A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the rook and the knight.
Noun capitalized: Empresses
Empresses
- plural of Empress
Phrases with empresses
Questions about empresses
- What is empresses the plural of?
- Empresses is the plural of empress.
- What part of speech is empresses?
- Empresses is a noun.
Words near empresses in the dictionary
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