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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

I had done so many things, but people probably knew me most for “Maleficent,” but it was then fun to be in “The Great” and I’m playing an empress, but she’s not the Disney version.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2026

This upcoming Spring/Summer 2026 season has been inspired by Vietnam's former ruling Nguyen dynasty, notably Emperor Khai Dinh and the last empress consort, Nam Phuong, who both lived under colonial French rule.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

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

I’ve seen the imperial family several times, the emperor an ugly, hard-looking man, the empress pale and pretty, but dressed in bad taste, I thought—purple dress, green hat, and yellow gloves.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Recording from his home in Pasadena, he has played men and women of all ages, races, nationalities and abilities, as well as “postapocalyptic people living in trees and empresses of fictitious planets,” he notes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2025

The organisation has close ties with the imperial family, with previous empresses serving as honorary presidents.

From BBC Jan. 23, 2024

I postponed my research on Sims, believing him to be an altruistic outlier who could be a balm in my distressing work: someone who, according to one statue’s inscription, treated “alike empresses and slaves”.

From Nature Sep. 17, 2017

As explained earlier, a few empresses wielded great power.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2012

As for the insolent things he had said to kings and emperors, and the soft speeches that empresses and queens had made to himself, they would fill a volume.

From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever




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