czarina

Or tsa·ri·na,

[zah-ree-nuh, tsah-]

noun

1. the wife of a czar; Russian empress.

czarina

/ zɑːˈriːnə, zɑːˈrɪtsə /

noun

1. variant spellings (esp US) of tsarina or tsaritsa See tsarina

Word History and Origins

Origin of czarina¹

1710–20; czar + -ina feminine suffix (as in Christina ), modeled on German Zarin empress, equivalent to Zar Czar + -in feminine suffix

Example Sentences

Culture: A decade ago, the “czarinas” emerged as Russia’s fashion ambassadors.

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“Germany and Russia have been linked for a thousand years. The biggest Russian czarina was Catherine the Great, a German, who incidentally made Crimea part of Russia.”

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Some are already well known — the slew of young women pretending to be Anastasia, the lost czarina, or the Fox sisters, whose hoaxes launched spiritualism into stratospheric popularity.

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"It took a long time to kill his son, the czarina and the princesses," a historian murmurs.

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A prince plots to kill mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.

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Related Words

• czar 
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