Czar

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A male monarch or emperor, especially one of the emperors who ruled Russia until the revolution of 1917.
  • n. A person having great power; an autocrat: "the square-jawed, ruddy complacency of Jack Farrell, the czar of the Fifteenth Street police stationā€ ( Ernest Hemingway).
  • n. Informal An appointed official having special powers to regulate or supervise an activity: a racetrack czar; an energy czar.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Alternative spelling of tsar.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An emperor; a king; specifically, the common title of the Emperor of Russia.
  • n. An article of dress, apparently a cravat, in use in the early part of the eighteenth century: probably named in compliment to Peter the Great, who visited England in 1698.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person having great power
  • n. a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    despot    tyrant    autocrat   
    Cross Reference
    white czar   
    Variant
    tsar    tzar   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    king    chief    monarch   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adar    Aer    Afar    Ajar    Ar    Azar    Babar    Bar    Barr    Belvoir   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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