czarina
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of czarina
1710–20; czar + -ina feminine suffix (as in Christina ), modeled on German Zarin empress, equivalent to Zar Czar + -in feminine suffix
Vocabulary lists containing czarina
Russia - Introductory
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Russia - Middle School and High School
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Example Sentences
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But the book doggedly follows its intriguing conceit, rendering even more poignant the scene of the czarina and her daughters busily sewing jewels into the seams of their garments, optimistic to the end.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2018
Yes, yes , the czarina sighed, signaling her weariness with the palace historian’s inevitable scold.
From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2017
Yet somehow Brown willed herself into a glittering media czarina in Pucci.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2016
Does the icy czarina played by Charlize Theron finally get to meet the intelligent life form – or life forms – that created humanity in the first place?
From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2012
The gene had also been passed from Victoria to her second daughter, Alice—and then from Alice to her daughter, Alexandra, the czarina of Russia.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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