Meaning of imperial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large Bordeaux wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.
2. A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
   countable, uncountable
3. Related to an empire, emperor, or empress
4. A city in Imperial County, California, United States.
5. A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
   countable, uncountable
6. Relating to the British imperial system of measurement
7. A city, the county seat of Chase County, Nebraska, United States.
8. A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
   uncountable
9. Very grand or fine
10. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
11. Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
    countable
12. Of special, superior, or unusual size or excellence
13. Imperial College London.
14. A crown imperial.
    countable, uncountable
15. Stronger than typical
16. A census-designated place in Pennsylvania, United States.
17. A census-designated place in Texas, United States.
18. A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).
    countable, uncountable
19. An unincorporated community in Virginia, United States.
20. A kind of dome, as in Moorish buildings.
    countable, uncountable
21. An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
22. An outside or roof seat on a diligence or carriage.
    countable, historical, uncountable
23. A former department of Chile.
24. A suitcase or trunk designed to be transported on the roof of a carriage.
    countable, historical, uncountable
25. A variety of green tea.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“There are who say the sonnet's meted maze Is all too fettered for the poet's powers, Compelled to crowd his flush and airy flowers Like pots of tall imperials, ill at ease.”

“...and she was just in time to see Mr. Boyne Sillery hand her aunt into a carriage, jump in himself, when it drove off with a rapidity which scarcely allowed her to observe that a large imperial was on the top, and her aunt's servant, with a huge bandbox, on the dickey.”

“[T]he imperials were packed, and the post-chariot was at the door.”

“He is now professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Imperial”

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