Crossword clues for empress
empress
- Victoria, for one
- Tarot card
- Alexandra, for one
- Tarot card, with "The"
- Catherine, notably
- Josephine, e.g
- Elizabeth II
- Certain ruler
- Catherine II, for example
- Victoria's _____ Hotel
- Title given to Queen Victoria in 1876
- Powerful female
- Popular ocean liner name
- One of Victoria's titles
- Imperial queen
- Female sovereign
- Eugénie, for one
- Eugénie, e.g
- Emperor's wife
- Czarina, e.g
- Catherine the Great's title
- Catherine the Great, to Russia
- Catherine the Great was one
- Catherine the Great
- Britain's Elizabeth at times
- "__ of Soul" (Gladys Knight)
- Catherine, for one
- Catherine the Great, e.g.
- Akihito's wife, e.g.
- She rules
- Catherine the Great, for one
- Title for Maria Theresa of Austria
- A woman Emperor or the wife of an Emperor
- "The Scarlet ___," 1934 Dietrich film
- Josephine's title
- Catherine or Josephine
- Josephine, e.g.
- China's ___ tree
- Eugénie, e.g.
- Catherine the Great, for example
- European millions getting iron ruler
- European married iron lady in power
- Sovereign English politician meets on ship
- First pair of emigrants joining crowd in Victoria, say
- Female ruler
- Fast train meant primarily for Luxembourg's third head of state
- Ruler's letter to crowd
- Politician arriving in before soldiers evacuated Victoria?
- Brave man to vex six-footer
- Inigo originally leaves premises rebuilt for ruler
- Josephine, for one
- Woman of rank
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Empress \Em"press\, n. [OE. empress, emperice, OF. empereis, empereris, fr. L. imperatrix, fem. of imperator. See Emperor.]
The consort of an emperor.
--Shak.A female sovereign.
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A sovereign mistress. ``Empress of my soul.''
--Shak.Empress cloth, a cloth for ladies' dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-12c., emperice, from Old French emperesse, fem. of emperere (see emperor). Queen Victoria in 1876 became one as "Empress of India."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 The female monarch (ruler) of an empire. 2 The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler (e.g. Persian shah). 3 (label en rare) A female chimpanzee. 4 A deciduous tree, (w: Paulownia tomentosa) Etymology 2
vb. (alternative form of impress English)
Wikipedia
Empress is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe. She first appeared in Young Justice #16 (January 2000).
An empress (also known as a marshal, chancellor, or simply rook+knight compound) is a fairy chess piece that can move like a rook or a knight. It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a rook, but may do so when moving as a knight. Below, it is given the symbol RN from Betza notation.
Empress is a French biographical novel written by Shan Sa, a French author who was born in Beijing. It is based on the life of Empress Wu Zetian.
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An empress is a female imperial monarch, or the wife of an imperial monarch; written with a capital, Empress is used as the title of an empress, placed before her name – often just the given name.
Empress or The Empress can further refer to:
Political- Empress of Japan, empress consort to the current reigning emperor.
- A number of brush-footed butterflies in the subfamily Apaturinae:
- Empress, Sasakia funebris
- Empress Antonia, Asterocampa celtis antonia, a subspecies of Asterocampa celtis
- Empress Leilia, Asterocampa leilia, a species in the genus Asterocampa
- Empress Flora, Asterocampa clyton flora, a subspecies of Asterocampa clyton
- Empress Louisa, A. c. louisa, another subspecies of Asterocampa clyton
- Painted empress, Apaturopsis cleochares
- EMPReSS, a database of standardized phenotyping protocols used by the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium.
- The Empress (hotel), one of the oldest hotels in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- The Empress Theatre (California) in Vallejo, California, in the United States
- The Empress Theatre (Montreal) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Empress Embedded Database, commercial relational database software
- Xenomorph empress, a caste of the fictional xenomorph from the Alien film series; see Alien (creature in Alien franchise)
- Empress (novel), a 2003 novel by Shan Sa
- Empress, also known as Empress of Mijak, a 2007 novel by Karen Miller
- Empress Schuck (born 1993), Filipina actress and commercial model
- Empress, Alberta, Canada
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, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
- MS Empress, a cruise ship operated by Pullmantur Cruises, formerly named Nordic Empress and Empress of the Seas
- MS Empress of Australia, a Bass Strait ferry
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, a United States Navy passenger barge in service briefly during 1917
- RMS Empress of Ireland, an English ocean liner, sank in 1914 in the Saint Lawrence River, Canada
- American Empress (formerly Empress of the North), a stern-wheel cruise ship in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
- Empress (comics), a comic book character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe
- The Empress (Tarot card), a trump card from the tarot deck
- The empress, a fairy chess piece which moves like a rook or a knight
- Beatmania IIDX 16: Empress, the 16th game in the beatmania IIDX series of music video games
Usage examples of "empress".
Empress that the Spiritual Advisor of Lord Shonto Shokan, Brother Shuyun, make his thoughts known.
Scaurus, Alypia, and Thorisin passed the inmost row of seats, the Empress Alania stood and joined her husband.
Having exchanged greetings with the Empress of Andhra, Antonina was now being introduced to her consort.
Empress of Andhra was hot enough to have sizzled lizards in the desert.
The young empress of Andhra expressed herself, ah, with more youthful vigor.
It would certainly get him an audience with the Empress of Andhra and her consort.
Henry was away and Matilda Empress kept her own establishments in Rouen, it devolved upon the Duchess Eleanor to set up centers of civility in the West befitting the new Angevin dynasty whose prospects at this time rose so fair as to cast a shadow over the Ile itself.
His army, thus deprived of their general, retreated northward that night, leaving in Breslau only four battalions, who, the next day, surrendered the place by capitulation, one of the articles of which was, that they should not serve against the empress, or her allies, for two years.
They were President Carnot of France in 1894, Premier Canovas of Spain in 1897, Empress Elizabeth of Austria in 1898, King Humbert of Italy in 1900, President McKinley of the United States in 1901, and another Premier of Spain, Canalejas, in 1912.
She listened with big round eyes to the story of the brave Emperor who saved the baby from the medicine, and the wicked Empress who killed him before he could save Cho as well.
She introduced Cho to sunset watching, and the art of appreciating a warm stone or a cool shadow, and she told her interesting stories of the Empresses and Emperors she had known.
He had the damndest Irish-English way of talking for a man whose family had lived in France since the Empress Josephine.
The most elite section of the Deathwatch Guards is charged with the personal safety of the Empress and her immediate family.
The Deathwatch Guards tramped on, dedicated heart and soul to Empress and Empire, and Bethamin went in the opposite direction.
He had been in the Deathwatch Guards even longer than Karede, though his hair was unbroken black, and he would suffer insults to the Empress, might she live forever, as gladly as insults to the Guards.