Noun: empire
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | empire |
| Plural m | empires |
Sample Sentences
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Quelle injustice aux Dieux, d'abandonner au femmes / Un empire si grand sur les plus belles âmes (What injustice from the gods, to give up for women / Such great dominion over the most beautiful souls) [1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 4, scene 7:]
Nouns inflected like empire
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French empire, from Latin imperium. See: Latin Nouns '
imperium'.
Verbs referencing "empire"
Russian Nouns
ампир, Finnish Nouns
empiiri, Finnish Nouns
empiretyyli.
Translations