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tsar
[ zahr, tsahr ]
tsar
/ tsɑː; zɑː /
noun
- (until 1917) the emperor of Russia
- a tyrant; autocrat
- informal.a public official charged with responsibility for dealing with a certain problem or issue
a drugs tsar
- informal.a person in authority; leader
- (formerly) any of several S Slavonic rulers, such as any of the princes of Serbia in the 14th century
Derived Forms
- ˈtsardom, noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of tsar1
Example Sentences
He hosted him in the one-time office of Tsar Nicholas II that overlooks a tropical garden and the Black Sea.
The Russian revolution of 1917 toppled the tsar and soon installed a bloodthirsty communist regime.
“He would have thought he should be treated like a tsar,” says Patton.
He killed his own son and heir by whacking him over the head with the monarchal staff in a tsar-ish fit of temper.
One headline, decades earlier, must have struck him with the force of Tsar Bomba.
Russian opera was then at a low ebb, and he only went to hear his favourite work, A Life for the Tsar.
Bute was deceived as regards the tsar's intentions, and his words were spoken in the interest of Prussia.
But to consent was one thing: the how another: the mere suspicion of the willingness of Kaiser or Tsar shook their thrones.
One was that I should form a liaison with some married lady; the other that I should become an adjutant to the Tsar.
The Tsar's own physicians attended her, but she became no better, and at last it was realised that an operation was inevitable.
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