Caesar
['si:zə]
Definition
(noun.) conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC).
(noun.) United States comedian who pioneered comedy television shows (born 1922).
Edited by Hugh--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus Caesar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar.
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Examples
- The ruins of Caesar's Palace, Pompey's Pillar, Cleopatra's Needle, the Catacombs, and ruins of ancient Alexandria will be found worth the visit. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But the haughty Ex-Queen thought as Octavius Caesar and Mark Antony, We could not stall together In the whole world. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yonder is a ruined arch of a bridge built by Julius Caesar nineteen hundred years ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I feel myself as far above suspicion as Caesar's wife. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Even Caesar's fortune at one time was, but a grand presentiment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was a public man; and he turned paler, as he thought of Julius Caesar and Mr. Perceval. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Imperial Caesar dead, and turned to clay Would stop a hole to keep the wind away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- How many a time have we mourned over the dead body of Julius Caesar, and to _be'd_ and not _to_ _be'd_, in this very room, for his amusement? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- We necessarily visited the Forum, where Caesar was assassinated, and also the Tarpeian Rock. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This was surely a summing of a year's exploration not less laconic than Caesar's review of his Gallic campaign. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was Covent Garden Theatre that I chose; and there, from the back of a centre box, I saw Julius Caesar and the new Pantomime. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The standing army of Caesar destroyed the Roman republic. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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