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empress

[em-pris] / ˈɛm prɪs /
NOUN
female ruler
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“Russia and Western Europe converged” under the empress, at least for a short while.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The former empress was driven into exile with her husband, late pro-Western shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in January 1979 during a popular revolution that ousted the monarchy and brought the Islamic republic to power.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

A crown of the empress Eugénie was left at the scene and is being examined to see if it is damaged.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

Her climb from lifestyle author to homemaking empress, along with her fall and brief imprisonment, spawned endless special reports, gossip columns, parodies, and unauthorized biographies both serious and salacious.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2024

If anyone had been an empress in some former life—at least among demons if not among the Tang people—it was Miss Whitlaw.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep