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EMPRESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("empress" is a kind of...):
emperor (the male ruler of an empire)
Instance hyponyms:
Catherine I (empress of Russia who succeeded her husband Peter the Great (1684-1727))
Catherine; Catherine II; Catherine the Great (empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796))
Queen Victoria; Victoria (queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901))
Context examples:
But I was a little comforted by a message from his majesty, that he would give orders to the grand justiciary for passing my pardon in form: which, however, I could not obtain; and I was privately assured, that the empress, conceiving the greatest abhorrence of what I had done, removed to the most distant side of the court, firmly resolved that those buildings should never be repaired for her use: and, in the presence of her chief confidents could not forbear vowing revenge.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It was strictly enjoined, that the project of starving you by degrees should be kept a secret; but the sentence of putting out your eyes was entered on the books; none dissenting, except Bolgolam the admiral, who, being a creature of the empress, was perpetually instigated by her majesty to insist upon your death, she having borne perpetual malice against you, on account of that infamous and illegal method you took to extinguish the fire in her apartment.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
