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empress

[em-pris] / ˈɛm prɪs /
NOUN
female ruler
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That is the year Russian empress Catherine the Great is said to have founded the city, although it has been widely questioned in recent years.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

“Russia and Western Europe converged” under the empress, at least for a short while.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

The former empress was driven into exile with her husband, late pro-Western shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in January 1979 during a popular revolution that ousted the monarchy and brought the Islamic republic to power.

From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026

I had done so many things, but people probably knew me most for “Maleficent,” but it was then fun to be in “The Great” and I’m playing an empress, but she’s not the Disney version.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

“I am here to see the king,” Lady Meng said with the aristocratic dignity of an empress.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Recording from his home in Pasadena, he has played men and women of all ages, races, nationalities and abilities, as well as “postapocalyptic people living in trees and empresses of fictitious planets,” he notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

I postponed my research on Sims, believing him to be an altruistic outlier who could be a balm in my distressing work: someone who, according to one statue’s inscription, treated “alike empresses and slaves”.

From Nature ● Sep. 17, 2017

Regent uncles, dowager empresses, concubines, brothers… all end up doing the wrong thing.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2012

As explained earlier, a few empresses wielded great power.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

For she deserves to be revered as the most imperial of all empresses.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld




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