Dictionary entry details
• EMPEROR (noun)
Meaning:
The male ruler of an empire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("emperor" is a kind of...):
crowned head; monarch; sovereign (a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emperor"):
Romanoff; Romanov (a member of the imperial family that ruled Russia)
Emperor of Rome; Roman Emperor (sovereign of the Roman Empire)
mikado; tenno (the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno)
Kaiser (the title of the Holy Roman Emperors or the emperors of Austria or of Germany until 1918)
Holy Roman Emperor (sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire)
empress (a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor)
Instance hyponyms:
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte; Emperor Napoleon III; Napoleon III (nephew of Napoleon I and emperor of the French from 1852 to 1871 (1808-1873))
Bonaparte; Little Corporal; Napoleon; Napoleon Bonaparte; Napoleon I (French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821))
Montezuma II (the last Aztec emperor in Mexico who was overthrown and killed by Hernando Cortes (1466-1520))
Meiji Tenno; Mutsuhito (emperor of Japan who encouraged the modernization of Japan (1852-1912))
Kubla Khan; Kublai Kaan; Kublai Khan (Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China; he establish the Yuan dynasty and built a great capital on the site of modern Beijing where he received Marco Polo (1216-1294))
Justinian; Justinian I; Justinian the Great (Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565))
Hirohito; Michinomiya Hirohito (emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989))
Haile Selassie; Ras Tafari; Ras Tafari Makonnen (emperor of Ethiopia; worshipped by Rastafarians (1892-1975))
Genghis Khan; Jenghiz Khan; Jinghis Khan; Temujin (Mongolian emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227))
Francis Joseph; Francis Joseph I; Franz Josef I; Franz Joseph (emperor of Austria and king of Hungary; was defeated by Napoleon III at the battle of Magenta (1830-1916))
Shah Jahan (Mogul emperor of India during whose reign the finest monuments of Mogul architecture were built (including the Taj Mahal at Agra) (1592-1666))
Meaning:
Red table grape of California
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("emperor" is a kind of...):
vinifera grape (grape from a cultivated variety of the common grape vine of Europe)
Meaning:
Large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
emperor moth; Saturnia pavonia; emperor
Hypernyms ("emperor" is a kind of...):
saturniid; saturniid moth (large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons)
Holonyms ("emperor" is a member of...):
genus Saturnia; Saturnia (type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth)
Meaning:
Large richly colored butterfly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
emperor butterfly; emperor
Hypernyms ("emperor" is a kind of...):
brush-footed butterfly; four-footed butterfly; nymphalid; nymphalid butterfly (medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emperor"):
Apatura iris; purple emperor (large European butterfly the male of which has wings shaded with purple)
Holonyms ("emperor" is a member of...):
Apatura; genus Apatura (large Old World butterflies)
