[ UK /ˈɛmpa‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈɛmpaɪɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
  2. a group of countries under a single authority
    the British created a great empire
  3. a monarchy with an emperor as head of state
  4. the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised
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How To Use empire In A Sentence

  • It seems that Egyptians continued to use hieroglyphs from around 3000 b.c. until the time of the Roman Empire.
  • There are only a couple of days left in Graeme's Fantasy Book Review's Giveaway for one of three copies of Orson Scott Card's new release, Hidden Empire. Book Contest Links ... more than a few
  • Yet he wrote a good deal about empire and coined the term "dual mandate" to describe British policy. Now That The Sun Has Set
  • Only a very strong, perhaps only a globally dominant, power can sustain informal empire in the long run.
  • At the conclusion eight horns (led by Michelle Perry of the Empire Brass) rang out triumphantly.
  • With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
  • From the late nineteenth century Britain and other European powers began to gain control of parts of the Ottoman Empire.
  • It was in recognition of such distinguished services in the industry that Mr. Patel was awarded the ‘Order of the British Empire’.
  • Howard's belated triumphalism in the South Pacific may be no more successful than Mussolini's equally tardy attempts at empire building in North Africa.
  • But before that he has to oversee his expanding retail empire.
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