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EMPEROR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large richly colored butterfly
Synonyms:
emperor; emperor butterfly
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("emperor" is a kind of...):
brush-footed butterfly; four-footed butterfly; nymphalid; nymphalid butterfly (medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emperor"):
Apatura iris; purple emperor (large European butterfly the male of which has wings shaded with purple)
Holonyms ("emperor" is a member of...):
Apatura; genus Apatura (large Old World butterflies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings
Synonyms:
emperor; emperor moth; Saturnia pavonia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("emperor" is a kind of...):
saturniid; saturniid moth (large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons)
Holonyms ("emperor" is a member of...):
genus Saturnia; Saturnia (type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Red table grape of California
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("emperor" is a kind of...):
vinifera grape (grape from a cultivated variety of the common grape vine of Europe)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The male ruler of an empire
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("emperor" is a kind of...):
crowned head; monarch; sovereign (a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emperor"):
empress (a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor)
Holy Roman Emperor (sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire)
Kaiser (the title of the Holy Roman Emperors or the emperors of Austria or of Germany until 1918)
mikado; tenno (the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno)
Emperor of Rome; Roman Emperor (sovereign of the Roman Empire)
Romanoff; Romanov (a member of the imperial family that ruled Russia)
Instance hyponyms:
Shah Jahan (Mogul emperor of India during whose reign the finest monuments of Mogul architecture were built (including the Taj Mahal at Agra) (1592-1666))
Ch'in Shih Huang Ti; Qin Shi Huang Ti (the first Qin emperor who unified China, built much of the Great Wall, standardized weights and measures, and created a common currency and legal system (died 210 BC))
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; Emperor Napoleon III; Napoleon III (nephew of Napoleon I and emperor of the French from 1852 to 1871 (1808-1873))
Bonaparte; Little Corporal; Napoleon; Napoleon Bonaparte; Napoleon I (French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821))
Montezuma II (the last Aztec emperor in Mexico who was overthrown and killed by Hernando Cortes (1466-1520))
Meiji Tenno; Mutsuhito (emperor of Japan who encouraged the modernization of Japan (1852-1912))
Kubla Khan; Kublai Kaan; Kublai Khan (Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China; he establish the Yuan dynasty and built a great capital on the site of modern Beijing where he received Marco Polo (1216-1294))
Justinian; Justinian I; Justinian the Great (Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565))
Hirohito; Michinomiya Hirohito (emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989))
Haile Selassie; Ras Tafari; Ras Tafari Makonnen (emperor of Ethiopia; worshipped by Rastafarians (1892-1975))
Genghis Khan; Jenghiz Khan; Jinghis Khan; Temujin (Mongolian emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227))
Francis Joseph; Francis Joseph I; Franz Josef I; Franz Joseph (emperor of Austria and king of Hungary; was defeated by Napoleon III at the battle of Magenta (1830-1916))
Derivation:
imperial (belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler)
Context examples:
The emperor lays on the table three fine silken threads of six inches long; one is blue, the other red, and the third green.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
If global climate keeps warming at the current rate, we expect emperor penguins in Antarctica to experience an 86% decline by the year 2100, says Stephanie Jenouvrier, a seabird ecologist at WHOI and lead author of the paper.
(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)
“Go home,” said the fish; “she is emperor already.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Very often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to show their skill, and to convince the emperor that they have not lost their faculty.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Emperor penguins tend to build their colonies on ice with extremely specific conditions — it must be locked into the shoreline of the Antarctic continent, but close enough to open seawater to give the birds access to food for themselves and their young.
(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)
Yes, said she, I am emperor.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
When I had finished my work, I desired the emperor to let a troop of his best horses twenty-four in number, come and exercise upon this plain.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Emperor penguins are some of the most striking and charismatic animals on Earth, but a study by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has found that a warming climate may render the penguins extinct by the end of this century.
(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)
I am king, it is true; but I begin to be tired of that, and I think I should like to be emperor.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
These people are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics, by the countenance and encouragement of the emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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