Plural of empire

Forms of empire

Empires in a sentence

• States and empires fail when they are no longer the solution, they are the problem.2022 February 7, Charles Hugh Smith, How Empires Die
• The old empires were crumbling but were being replaced by neo-imperialisms.2023, John Sexton, “Red Star and Paper Tiger”, in Red Friends: Internationalists in China’s Struggle for Liberation, London; Brooklyn, New…. From the entry neoimperialism
• This is not, if we’re brutally honest, the stuff of evil empires.2023 February 26, Jonathan Liew, “Newcastle not yet an evil-empire side but cup final feels like a springboard”, in The Guardian. From the entry sith
• The men from Ningpo who'd moved to Shanghai and created banking empires are just the type of bankers Jack likes: tight-lipped.2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51. From the entry Ningpo
• Like empires, world orders grow old, fissiparous, complacent and grumpy — despite the Champagne, the thrill is gone.2015 January 1, Steven Erlanger, “New Year, Old Problems”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry fissiparous

Meaning of empire

1. 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.
2. noun A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
3. noun 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.

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Questions about the plural of empire

What is the plural of empire?

The plural of empire is empires.

Is empire countable?

Empire is a countable noun.