[ US /ˌɪmˈpɪɹiəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpˈi‍əɹɪə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or belonging to the British Imperial System of weights and measures
  2. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
    golden age of imperial splendor
    the royal carriage of a stag's head
    regal attire
    treated with royal acclaim
    purple tyrant
  3. befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress
    imperial palace
  4. relating to or associated with an empire
    imperial colony
    the imperial gallon was standardized legally throughout the British Empire
NOUN
  1. a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach
  2. a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III
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How To Use imperial In A Sentence

  • During the prime of the Roman Republic, roughly the last two centuries B.C., it served as a northern boundary protecting the heartland of Italy and the city of Rome from its own imperial armies.
  • Despite imperial successes at St. Gotthard (1664), Growardein and Neuhäusel in Hungary ceded to the Ottomans (1664, at Vasvár). 2. The Habsburg Monarchy
  • Vatican a magnificent porphyry labrum found in one of the imperial baths; and Baccius, a great modern authority on baths, speaks of labra made of glass. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • Then, as they approached the docks, the diggers stared in awe at the remains of the once-mighty Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.
  • It looked like it was made of plaques of imperial jade, not softer serpentine. JADE ISLAND
  • No matter what the approach, drastic measures are needed to stem the latest tide of Yanqui imperialism.
  • A similar problem came up yesterday in reading a Boris Akunin story called Strast' i dolg Passion and duty, set in an alternate Russia which has revived tsardom, along with its Table of Ranks and all the rest of the imperial paraphernalia. Languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS.
  • The Seppos found a cure for fiesty natives, opposed to cultural imperialism and resident in heavily afforested regions - they called it Napalm. Cheeseburger Gothic » Just got back from Avatar.
  • Imperialism was not just about colonialism, but the shape of capitalist competition.
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