empire
English
/ˈɛmpaɪə/, /ˈɛmˌpaɪɹ/
noun
Definitions
- A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority.
- A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
- A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
- An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
- (Absolute) control, dominion, sway.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English empire derived from Old French empire derived from Latin imperium (empire, imperial government, command, power).
Origin
Latin
imperium
Gloss
empire, imperial government, command, power
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
力
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiempire English
- empirehood English
- imperium English
- miniempire English
- subempire English
- imperialis Latin
- imperiosus Latin
- imperium Latin
- Imperium German
- impero Italian
- imperium Dutch, Flemish
- empire French
- импе́рия Russian
- империя Russian
- imperio Spanish, Castilian
- imperium Norwegian Bokmål
- imperium Swedish
- imperium Norwegian Nynorsk
- empire Middle English
- imperium Danish
- impérium Czech
- emperie Old French
- empire Old French
- imperiu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- impērija Latvian
- impere Old Irish
- အင်ပါယာ Burmese
- emperio Old Portuguese
- emperi Occitan
- imperiu Asturian
- imperi Friulian
- mpiru Sicilian
- inpero Venetian
- ampério Mirandese
- emperi Old Catalan