Meaning of empire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A number of places in the United States:
2. An unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama.
3. A political state, often a monarchy, that has achieved a much greater current size than its initial size by conquering surrounding territories, cities or nations.
4. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a neoclassic style, as in clothing or the decorative arts, prevalent in France during the early 1800s.
5. An unincorporated community in Chicot County, Arkansas.
6. A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
7. imperium
8. A variety of apple having dark red skin and white flesh.
9. A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
10. 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.
11. rule (of law)
12. arrogance
13. A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
14. A town in Clear Creek County, Colorado, named after the Empire State.
15. An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
16. An extensive enterprise under a unified authority: a publishing empire.
17. A census-designated place and former town in Dodge County and Bleckley County, Georgia.
18. control, dominion, sway.
19. Imperial or imperialistic sovereignty, domination, or control: the extension of empire to distant lands.
20. An unincorporated community and coal town in Christian County, Kentucky.
21. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an aggregate of peoples and territories, often of great extent, under the rule of a single person, oligarchy, or sovereign state
22. A census-designated place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
23. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any monarchy that for reasons of history, prestige, etc, has an emperor rather than a king as head of state
24. A township and village therein, in Leelanau County, Michigan.
25. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the period during which a particular empire exists
26. An unincorporated community in Butler County, Missouri.
27. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) supreme power; sovereignty
28. A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada.
29. (Commerce) a large industrial organization with many ramifications, esp a multinational corporation
30. A village in Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.
31. A district of the city of Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon.
32. A town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
33. A former community in Goshen County, Wyoming.
34. A number of other townships, listed under Empire Township.

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Examples

“the Russian empire”

“States and empires fail when they are no longer the solution, they are the problem.”

“The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.”

“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[…]”

“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.”

“the McDonald's fast food empire”

““Revenues for Jackson's non-profit empire sky-rocketed from $4 million in 1997, to more than $14 million just two years later.””

“The Mafia never forgave Castro but Lansky had already laid the foundations of a mob gambling empire all over the Caribbean […]”

“Each master whim maintains its hour of empire, And obstinately faithful to its dictates”

“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.”

“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.”

“[…] 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: […]”

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