EMPRESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does empress mean? • EMPRESS (noun)
The noun EMPRESS has 1 sense:
1. a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
Familiarity information: EMPRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EMPRESS (noun)
Meaning:
A woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("empress" is a kind of...):
emperor (the male ruler of an empire)
Instance hyponyms:
Catherine I (empress of Russia who succeeded her husband Peter the Great (1684-1727))
Catherine; Catherine II; Catherine the Great (empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796))
Queen Victoria; Victoria (queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901))
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