The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
Used in a Sentence
emperor
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for emperor.
Editorial note
Quick question: by Nero, do you mean the Roman emperor, or the CD/DVD burning software?
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Definitions4
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Quick take
The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of emperor gathered in one view.
Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.
An emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for emperor.
noun
The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
See also: emperor-moth, emperor-butterfly, saturnia-pavonia
noun
Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.
See also: emperor-moth, emperor-butterfly, saturnia-pavonia
noun
An emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri).
See also: emperor-moth, emperor-butterfly, saturnia-pavonia
noun
A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
See also: emperor-moth, emperor-butterfly, saturnia-pavonia
Example sentences
Quick question: by Nero, do you mean the Roman emperor, or the CD/DVD burning software?
Takes too much personal risk in the big corporate world to point out that the emperor wears no clothes.
Read Dune and Dune Messiah together, and then skip the rest and read God Emperor of Dune.
There's also another fantastic game inspired by Dune, an older turn-based strategy game called Emperor of the Fading Suns.
As a female emperor, not empress, Wu Zetian was under constant threat of coups and uprisings.
It's sad to see cargo cult that fails to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Frank Herbert really starts to get into his stride with the Emperor God of Dune.
The emperor god of dune still reads fine without remembering those two sequels perfectly.
Right now every large website is an unchallenged emperor of its niche.
The emperor dies and we get a new one, but it's hardly a free market system.
Electric Wizard and Nile won't even form for another decade, Immolation won't start putting out their most important work until '96, Emperor until '91-ish.
Perhaps China could adopt an anti-corruption method pioneered by China's only female leader to have ever held the masculine title of emperor: Wu Zetian.
Quote examples
Too many notes - or words, to borrow from the Emperor in "Amadeus".
Nope, it's mostly because some in the HN audience fail to recognize "Emperor Has no Clothes" situations mostly due to indoctrination and a refusal to truly think things through.
Added: linked article justifies this being about the Roman Empire with "Historians have variously dated the final collapse to the sack of Rome in AD410 by the Visigoth king Alaric, the deposing of the last Roman emperor by the German chieftain Odoacer in AD476 and the death of Justinian I, the last Roman emperor to try to reconquer the western half of the empire, in AD565."
I have had a very, very difficult time wrapping my head around the arguments for both "free will" as some kind of quantum effect (see: Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind and its "sequel") and arguments for some specially defined consciousness with requirements for "awareness".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use emperor in a sentence?
Quick question: by Nero, do you mean the Roman emperor, or the CD/DVD burning software?
What does emperor mean?
The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
What part of speech is emperor?
emperor is commonly used as noun.