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单词 empire
释义

empire

See also: Empire and empiré

English

Etymology

From Middle English empire, from Old French empire, empere, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”). Doublet of empery and imperium.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĕmʹpīə, ĕmʹpī-ə, IPA(key): /ˈɛmpaɪə/, /ˈɛmpaɪ.ə/
  • (General American) enPR: ĕmʹpīr', ĕmʹpī'ər, IPA(key): /ˈɛmˌpaɪɹ/, /ˈɛmˌpaɪɚ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: em‧pire
A map showing The First French Empire in 1810.

Noun

empire (plural empires)

  1. A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority.
    the Russian empire
    • 2022 February 7, Charles Hugh Smith, How Empires Die‎:
      States and empires fail when they are no longer the solution, they are the problem.
  2. A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
    The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.
  3. The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.
    • 2001 August 2, P. J. Marshall, The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 105:
      British people [...] continued to believe in empire. It was what gave Britain a unique role in the world, and in return Britain had drawn strength from its empire to enable it to survive two great wars that had wrecked so many of its competitors. Imperial management in the twentieth […]
    • 2021 April 13, Daniel Verdier, Democracy and International Trade: Britain, France, and the United States, 1860-1990, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 139:
      Since Britain imported mainly foodstuffs from its empire, no preferences could be granted to the colonies without Britain first imposing a tariff on foodstuffs imported from other countries.
  4. An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
    the McDonald's fast food empire
    • 2002, Evelyn L. Damore, The Rattle and Hiss of the Tin Gods, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 111:
      “Revenues for Jackson's non-profit empire sky-rocketed from $4 million in 1997, to more than $14 million just two years later.”
    • 2009, Martin Short, The Rise of the Mafia, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN:
      The Mafia never forgave Castro but Lansky had already laid the foundations of a mob gambling empire all over the Caribbean […]
  5. (Absolute) control, dominion, sway.
    • 1881, François Guizot, The History of Civilization from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution..., page 122:
      The brutality, the unthinking, the unreflecting character of the barbarians were so great, that the new faith, the new feelings with which they had been inspired, exercised but a very slight empire over them.
    • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 1:
      With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.
    • 2010, Stefania Tutino, Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 270:
      […] could gain some political strength for the pope, but in so doing the pope would lose the uniqueness and supremacy of his empire over souls: […]

Derived terms

  • Austrian Empire
  • British Empire
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Celestial Empire
  • Central African Empire
  • colonial empire
  • empire-building
  • Empire-grown
  • empirehood
  • empire line
  • Empire of Japan
  • Empire of Korea
  • Empire State
  • empire waist
  • empire-waist
  • First French Empire
  • French colonial empire
  • German Empire
  • global empire
  • gunpowder empire
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
  • Hunnic Empire
  • Japanese Empire
  • Korean Empire
  • Norwegian Empire
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Portuguese Empire
  • Roman Empire
  • Russian Empire
  • Second French Empire
  • Spanish Empire
  • Swedish Empire
  • emperor
  • empress
  • imperator
  • imperatrix
  • imperial
  • imperially
  • imperium
  • imperate
  • imperation


Translations

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Further reading

  • empire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • empire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • empire at OneLook Dictionary Search

Adjective

empire (not comparable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Empire.

Anagrams

  • E-Prime, epimer, permie, premie

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈempire/, [ˈe̞mpire̞]
  • Rhymes: -empire
  • Syllabification(key): em‧pi‧re

Noun

empire

  1. (art) Short for empiretyyli (“Empire style”).

Declension

Inflection of empire (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominativeempireempiret
genitiveempirenempirejen
partitiveempireäempirejä
illativeempireenempireihin
singularplural
nominativeempireempiret
accusativenom.empireempiret
gen.empiren
genitiveempirenempirejen
empireinrare
partitiveempireäempirejä
inessiveempiressäempireissä
elativeempirestäempireistä
illativeempireenempireihin
adessiveempirelläempireillä
ablativeempireltäempireiltä
allativeempirelleempireille
essiveempirenäempireinä
translativeempireksiempireiksi
instructive—empirein
abessiveempirettäempireittä
comitative—empireineen
Possessive forms of empire (type nalle)
possessorsingularplural
1st personempireniempiremme
2nd personempiresiempirenne
3rd personempirensä

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.piʁ/
  • Audio(file)

Etymology 1

From Old French empire, from Latin imperium.

Noun

empire m (plural empires)

  1. empire
  2. influence, authority, dominion
    • 1640, Pierre Corneille, “Act 4, Scene 7”, in Horace:
      Quelle injustice aux Dieux, d'abandonner au femmes / Un empire si grand sur les plus belles âmes
      What injustice from the gods, to give up for women / Such great dominion over the most beautiful souls
Derived terms
  • Céleste Empire
  • Empire byzantin
  • Empire des Fleurs
  • Empire du Milieu
  • Empire ottoman
  • Empire romain
  • Saint-Empire romain germanique
  • empereur
  • impératrice
  • imperial
Descendants
  • Russian: ампи́р (ampír)

Verb

empire

  1. inflection of empirer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “empire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • périmé, primée

Italian

Alternative forms

  • empiere

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *implīre, from Latin impleō.

Verb

empìre (first-person singular present émpio, first-person singular past historic empìi or (less common) empiéi, past participle empìto or (less common) empiùto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. (uncommon, literally) to fill [+ di (object) = with]
  2. (figuratively) to fill, to stuff [+ di (object) = with]
    empire di gioia ― to fill with joy
    empire la testa di qualcuno di chiacchiere ― to fill someone's head with chatter
  3. (archaic or literary) to satisfy, to satiate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of empìre (-ire; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitiveempìre
auxiliary verbavéregerundempièndo
present participleempièntepast participleempìto, empiùto1
personsingularplural
firstsecondthirdfirstsecondthird
indicativeiotului/lei, esso/essanoivoiloro, essi/esse
presentémpioémpiémpieempiàmoempìteémpiono
imperfectempìvoempìviempìvaempivàmoempivàteempìvano
past historicempìi, empiéi1empìsti, empiésti1empì, empié1empìmmo, empiémmo1empìste, empiéste1empìrono, empiérono1
futureempiròempiràiempiràempirémoempiréteempirànno
conditionaliotului/lei, esso/essanoivoiloro, essi/esse
presentempirèiempiréstiempirèbbe, empirébbeempirémmoempirésteempirèbbero, empirébbero
subjunctiveche ioche tuche lui/che lei, che esso/che essache noiche voiche loro, che essi/che esse
presentémpiaémpiaémpiaempiàmoempiàteémpiano
imperfectempìssiempìssiempìsseempìssimoempìsteempìssero
imperative—tuLeinoivoiLoro
émpiémpiaempiàmoempìteémpiano
negative imperativenonempìrenon émpianon empiàmonon empìtenon émpiano

1Less common.

Synonyms

  • riempire
  • pieno

Anagrams

  • permei, premei

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • empyre, enpyre, empyere, empere, empeyr, empir, enpir, ampyre

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French empire, empere, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”). Doublet of emperie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛmˈpiːr(ə)/, /ɛmˈpɛːr(ə)/, /ˈɛmpiːr(ə)/, /am-/

Noun

empire

  1. Emperorship; the office, power or title of emperor.
  2. An empire; the domain of an emperor or empress.
  3. (rare) Total power or influence, especially when wielded by gods.
    • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:5-6, page 117v; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
      [⁊ of iheſu criſt] þat is a feiþful witneſſe .· þe firſte bigeten of deed men · ⁊ pꝛynce of kyngis of þe erþe / which louyde vs / ⁊ waiſchide vs fro oure ſynnes in his blood .· / ⁊ made vs a kyngdom / ⁊ pꝛeſtis to god ⁊ to his fadir / to hym be gloꝛie ⁊ empire .· in to woꝛldis of woꝛldis
      [of Jesus Christ,] / who is a reliable witness, the firstborn of the dead, and sovereign over the rulers of the Earth, who loved us, cleansed us from our sins with his blood, / and made us a kingdom / and priests of God and his father. To him are glory and power for many ages.
  4. (rare) A region of control; a field or zone.
  5. (rare, Christianity) God's kingdom in the heavens.

Descendants

  • English: empire
  • Scots: empire

References

  • “empīre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-24.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /emˈpi.rə/, (late) /amˈpi.rə/

Noun

empire m (oblique plural empires, nominative singular empires, nominative plural empire)

  1. empire

Descendants

  • → Middle English: empire
    • English: empire
  • French: empire

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Empire.

Adjective

empire m or f or n (masculine plural empiri, feminine and neuter plural empire)

  1. (art) Empire

Declension
Declension of empire
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite empire empire empiri empire
definite empirele empirea empirii empirele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite empire empire empiri empire
definite empirelui empirei empirilor empirelor

References

  • empire in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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