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empress noun [ ˈɛmprəs ]

• a woman who is a sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire.
• "Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress at Delhi in 1877"
Similar: ruler, sovereign, monarch, potentate, tsarina, imperatrix, autarch, ethnarch,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French emperesse, feminine of emperere (see emperor).

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