empress

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
    — Sit downe by her: adorned with my Crowne, As if thou wert the Empreſſe of the world.
  2. The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
    — Empress, imperial regent, and even emperor herself (r. 797–802), Irene was an important and powerful figure at the Byzantine court in the late eighth and early ninth century.
  3. The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
  4. A female chimpanzee. rare
  5. A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
  6. A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the rook and the knight.
动词 v.
  1. Rare form of impress. form-of,rare

词形变化

empresses plural emperess alternative,obsolete empresse alternative,obsolete empresses present,singular,third-person empressing participle,present empressed participle,past empressed past

词汇关系

衍生词
empress cloth empress dowager empressment empress regnant empress tree Holy Roman Empress

词源

词源 1
From Middle English emperice, emperesse, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empereriz, from Latin imperatrix, equivalent to emperor + -ess. Doublet of imperatrix. Compare modern French impératrice.
词源 2
From Middle English empresse, from Anglo-Norman enpresser (“to press, to imprint”), from Old French empresser. Attested from the 15th or late 14th century.
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