pre-Empire
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a word derived from
empire.
empirenouna group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire.
Example Sentences
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After graduating in the early 1990s, he drove straight to Los Angeles and got a job interning for a pre-Empire Lee Daniels.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2017
ABC was one of the only networks pre-Empire Empire to push hard for diverse casts in its series – mostly thanks to Shonda Rhimes.
From Forbes ● Apr. 20, 2015
Like the pre-Empire Terran game show, if she said the magic word, she would win—not money, but her life.
From The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson
But there is one author who, for one book at least, belonging to the successors rather than the avant-coureurs, but decidedly of the pre-Empire kind, must have a more detailed mention.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
Ninety-nine-plus percent of the time, this means demonstrating an integrity pre-Empire Terran politicians would believe undesirable to impossible, probably both.
From Concordance A Terran Empire concordance by Ann Wilson