empire 的 2 个定义
- a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire.
- a government under an emperor or empress.
- the historical period during which a nation is under such a government: a history of the second French empire.
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- characteristic of or developed during the first French Empire, 1804–15.
- of the style that prevailed during the first French Empire, in clothing being characterized especially by décolletage and a high waistline, coming just below the bust, from which the skirt hangs straight and loose.
- noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France and imitated to a greater or lesser extent in various other countries, c1800–30: characterized by the use of delicate but elaborate ornamentation imitated from Greek and Roman examples or containing classical allusions, as animal forms for the legs of furniture, bas-reliefs of classical figures, motifs of wreaths, torches, caryatids, lyres, and urns and by the occasional use of military and Egyptian motifs and, under the Napoleonic Empire itself, of symbols alluding to Napoleon I, as bees or the letter N.
empire 近义词
place ruled by sovereign; rule
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- Additionally, Earl — who built his empire on theme restaurants such as Planet Hollywood— is the founder of Virtual Dining Concepts, which oversees MrBeast Burger and Tyga Bites.
- For the first four years of his charmed career, Mahomes won a Super Bowl, became the face of the NFL, started a business empire, transformed Kansas City’s image of itself, urged Americans to vote and launched a presumed dynasty.
- Much like the mysterious informant today, simply known as “Q,” Prokopios speaks to his intimate and first-hand knowledge of the secret dealings of empire.
- In “Filthy Rich,” Kim Cattrall’s character manages a televangelism empire as a widowed mother of three grown children who navigates — dramatically if not traumatically — the surprise arrival of three other adult children fathered by her late husband.
- A16z led both Clubhouse’s Series A and B and is trying to build out its own media empire.
- Empire will be hate-watched and may set off some conversations on its way from fading from our minds.
- The Virologist By Andrew Marantz, New Yorker How a young entrepreneur built an empire by repackaging memes.
- One wonders if his subsequent battles with the “Evil Empire” were animated by this belief.
- Another rumor that has existed since before The Empire Strikes Back was released.
- Even the queen saw fit to honor him with the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in 2008.
- On the establishment of the Empire Berthier, like many another, received the reward for his faithfulness to Napoleon.
- Constantine the Great died, having divided the empire among his children and nephews.
- During that fortnight of silence the whole of the Turkish Empire has been moving—closing in—on the Dardanelles.
- She had seen England spread from an island into an empire; she had seen America spread from a colony into an empire.
- No Briton rejoiced more sincerely than this provincial American in the extension of the Empire.