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UK
/tsˈɑː/
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[ US /ˈzɑɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈzɑɹ/ ]
NOUN
- a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
- a person having great power
How To Use czar In A Sentence
- The czar looked a bit edgy, but his son the czarevich seemed confident.
- Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III. The Rise Of an Empress
- The idea of absolute state sovereignty is relatively new, and it derives from agreements among kings, emperors, kaisers, and czars for their mutual benefit.
- He caps them with the theme rewritten as a polka/waltz, a tango, a czardas, in ragtime, and ‘in the style of film music.’
- Neither is Powell slated to be the Attorney General, where he may choose the civil rights czar, who carves the policy groove on race in the Justice Department.
- I mean, everyone always seems to me throws out the term czar when they don't know what else to do. CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2008
- Hadn't the Russians decided that Siberia-the old barless prison state of the czars and early Communists-was a more practical frontier than the moon? If the Stars are Gods
- In the early 20th century, the czar called the Duma together and dissolved it at will.
- To a certain extent undoubtedly this may be traced back to the new czar's personal relations with the rulers of other nations; for the czarina was a sister of The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
- He spent a decade toiling away as frontman for under- appreciated alt-rock band the Czars before finally gaining traction as a solo artist with last year's Queen Of Denmark, a collaboration with the band Midlake that rather outshone their own lacklustre recent album. This week's new live music