Empress
['emprɪs] or ['ɛmprəs]
Definition
(n.) The consort of an emperor.
(n.) A female sovereign.
(n.) A sovereign mistress.
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Definition
See Emperor.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of an empress, denotes that you will be exalted to high honors, but you will let pride make you very unpopular. To dream of an empress and an emperor is not particularly bad, but brings one no substantial good.
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Examples
- The empress's apartment on fire by an accident; the author instrumental in saving the rest of the palace. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- There I saw the empress and the young princes, in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The Empress appeared in the verandah, and the little Grand Duchess came out into the crowd. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Empress said the Americans were favorites in Russia, and she hoped the Russians were similarly regarded in America. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A combined allied force of 20,000 under a German general then marched up to Peking and relieved the legations, and the old Empress fled northwestward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Habsburgs, who had toadied to his success, had taken away his Habsburg empress--she went willingly enough--to Vienna, and he never saw her again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Austrian army is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There is likewise another diversion, which is only shown before the emperor and empress, and first minister, upon particular occasions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The same tree they rested under when they first arrived, was there a short time ago, but the Viceroy of Egypt sent it to the Empress Eugenie lately. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In 1877, Lord Beaconsfield, to complete this work, caused Queen Victoria to be proclaimed Empress of India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was not perfected till after the peace of 1748, by the orders of the present empress queen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I lay on the ground to kiss his majesty's and the empress's hands. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The Empress Josephine was unfaithful to him as he to her. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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