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What does empire mean?
Definitions in simple English

empire

An empire is a large country that has taken control of many other countries. An empire is a country led by an emperor or empress. An empire is a large amount of property and power that a person might have. No mater how rich he got, he kept trying to build his empire bigger.

empire

the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised a group of countries under a single authority the British created a great empire a monarchy with an emperor as head of state (= conglomerate) a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

Empire

an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple

Synonyms empire synonyms

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Simple sentences

Although 475AD is the year that shows the 'decline' of the Roman Empire, it is not the year of its 'fall'.
The empire absorbed all the small states.
What's the height of the Empire State Building?
The government of the Inca Empire controlled everything.
The Holy Roman Empire came to an end in the year 1806.
The empire strikes back.
They built their empire in Peru about five hundred years ago.
They are stopping at the Empire Hotel.
The expansion of the Roman Empire wiped out a considerable number of the original European languages.
The Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist in 1806.
The Roman Empire survived for a thousand years.
Turkey is the heir of Ottoman Empire.
He was the last Arch Seneschal of the Holy Roman Empire.
He was the ruler of the Inca Empire.
The United States was once part of the British Empire.
Romans did not wish for the fall of their empire, but it happened.
In 1492 Antonio de Nebrija said that language is the handmaiden of empire.
The fall of the empire was inevitable.

Movie subtitles

The opponent is an empire which has subdued over a third of the world.
Capture the enemy of the empire's people!
In the space of just a generation, in the fifth century AD, the Roman Empire in Western Europe essentially fell apart - the aqueducts dried up, the roads overgrown, the circuses deserted.
Yongle controlled his vast empire from the Imperial capital, Nanjing.
What they're building here in Nanjing is a fuII-scaIe replica of one of the treasure ships of admiral Zheng He - the most famous sailor in Chinese history, the man who very nearly turned the middle Kingdom into a global empire.
The giraffe was hailed as a symbol of perfect virtue, perfect government and perfect harmony in the empire and the universe.
For centuries, the old spice route ran from the Indian Ocean over land across the Arabian peninsula, into the Ottoman Empire, and then from Venice into Europe.
It was the hub of Britain's burgeoning overseas empire.
Compare that with China, with its one monolithic empire.
In 1 793, the 1 st Earl Macartney led an expedition to the Qianlong Emperor, in a vain effort to persuade the Chinese to re-open their empire to trade.
The empire of crime.
Because the ultimate purpose of crime is to establish the endless empire of crime.
When humanity, subjugated by the terror of crime, has been driven insane by fear and horror, and when chaos has become supreme law, then the time will have come for the empire of crime.
This is an empire, but nothing has changed.
Sorry, it wasn't easy with all these changes of regime: first a kingdom, then a republic, and now an empire.
There's no more Arab Kingdom or Empire.
The Magic Empire of the Twentieth Century!
Tireless in the defense of a crumbling empire was the Grand Duke Sergius Alexander, cousin to the Czar and Commanding General of the Russian Armies.
Be prepared to speak on behalf of the Empire with the great, immortal lama whose soul is forever passing from a dead body to a new one.
The Empire is confident of the strong friendship of the Mongolian people.
The Empire binds itself to bolster his power to indefatigably care for the people's welfare.
He is making for the Empire State Building.
Kong is climbing the Empire State Building.
Knight of the Holy Roman Empire, Envoy Extraordinary. from His Majesty Philip, King of Spain, Aragon and Castile.
May our new bride from far away be forever happy. and learn to know the love we have in our Russian hearts for her. and the hope this vast, imperishable empire has. for an heir to the throne.
This American empire, in the end still.
Look, big steamer. Bearing her precious human freight to the farthest flung outposts of the Empire.
I represent the Empire Insurance Company.
He says he's from the Empire of Buffalo.
This nation is annexed to the Tomainian Empire, and the people will obey the laws bestowed on us by our great leader, the Dictator of Tomainia, the conqueror of Osterlich, the future Emperor of the World!
Kane's empire, in its glory held dominion over 37 newspapers, two syndicates a radio network, an empire upon an empire.
An empire through which for 50 years flowed in an unending stream the wealth of the Earth's third richest gold mine.
Alone in his never-finished, already decaying pleasure palace aloof, seldom visited, never photographed an emperor of newsprint continued to direct his failing empire.
And we're going to the Empire. - The Empire?
Oh, they say that the Empire and such places. They do?
The empire spring is very gay. The band plays- good morning.

News and current affairs

Stalin was content to settle for an empire in Eastern Europe.
But the 1945 consensus was dealt a much greater blow precisely when we all rejoiced at the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the other great twentieth-century tyranny.
By putting paid to any revanchist tendencies in Russia concerning the Baltics, Europe is made a safer place, and Russia is helped in its effort to redefine itself as a national state and not an empire.
Russia would be furious, because it fears that Kosovo's secession - whether or not it is internationally recognized - might fuel separatist movements in the former Soviet empire.
In the early nineteenth century, the friezes and sculptures were removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin, Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803.
The British had stopped believing in their own empire.
It is difficult to sustain an empire without the will to use force when necessary.
Even as the British were dismantling their empire after World War II, the French and Dutch still believed that parting with their Asian possessions would result in chaos.
To be sure, it maintained a navy equal in size to the next two fleets combined, and its empire, on which the sun never set, ruled over a quarter of humankind.
The British Empire was ruled in large part through reliance on local troops.
Of the 8.6 million British forces in WWI, nearly a third came from the overseas empire.
That made it increasingly difficult for the government in London to declare war on behalf of the empire when nationalist sentiments began to intensify.
By World War II, protecting the empire had become more of a burden than an asset.
Some observers conflate the concept with imperialism; but the US is clear evidence that a hegemon does not have to have a formal empire.
Rupert Murdoch's media empire is a model of the modern global enterprise.
At least in the case of the Murdoch empire, it now appears that they pursue long and binding relationships with politicians and the police as well.
Murdoch's empire depended on its closeness to politicians.
The disintegration of the business empire is then accompanied and amplified by bitter disputes between the children and the substitute children.
Indeed, the crisis of the Murdoch family's business empire is neither unique nor unprecedented.
The Islamist governments that have emerged from the downfall of America's puppet regimes are no friends of an Iranian nuclear empire.
Conversely, the Western Roman Empire did not succumb to another state, but instead to internal decay and swarms of barbarians.
Britain had an empire on which the sun never set, ruled more than a quarter of humankind, and enjoyed naval supremacy.

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