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CZAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person having great power
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("czar" is a kind of...):
autocrat; despot; tyrant (a cruel and oppressive dictator)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("czar" is a kind of...):
crowned head; monarch; sovereign (a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right)
Domain region:
Russia (a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917)
Instance hyponyms:
Aleksandr Pavlovich; Alexander I; Czar Alexander I (the czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825))
Alexander II; Alexander the Liberator; Czar Alexander II (the son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881))
Alexander III; Czar Alexander III (son of Alexander II who was czar of Russia (1845-1894))
Boris Fyodorovich Godunov; Boris Godunov; Godunov (czar of Russia (1551-1605))
Ivan IV; Ivan Iv Vasilievich; Ivan the Terrible (the first czar of Russia (1530-1584))
Czar Nicholas I; Nicholas I (czar of Russia from 1825 to 1855 who led Russia into the Crimean War (1796-1855))
Nicholas II (the last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution; he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks (1868-1918))
Czar Peter I; Peter I; Peter the Great (czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government; he extended his territories in the Baltic and founded St. Petersburg (1682-1725))
Derivation:
czaristic (of or relating to or characteristic of a czar)
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