empress
noun
a female ruler of an empire.
empresses
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pluralof empress.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Recording from his home in Pasadena, he has played men and women of all ages, races, nationalities and abilities, as well as “postapocalyptic people living in trees and empresses of fictitious planets,” he notes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
I postponed my research on Sims, believing him to be an altruistic outlier who could be a balm in my distressing work: someone who, according to one statue’s inscription, treated “alike empresses and slaves”.
From Nature ● Sep. 17, 2017
Regent uncles, dowager empresses, concubines, brothers… all end up doing the wrong thing.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2012
As explained earlier, a few empresses wielded great power.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
It is a noteworthy feature in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire that periods in which empresses figure prominently in the affairs of state alternate with periods in which the Augustæ are mere ciphers.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
