tsar
a variant of czar.
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How to use tsar in a sentence
In the 19th century it was the tsars who banned Ukrainian language books, schools, jailed Ukrainian patriots and dismissed the region as mere “little Russia.”
Just one year later the flamboyant internet tsar was out of his post, swept up in Xi’s wide-ranging anti-corruption campaign.
How China’s top internet regulator became Chinese tech giants’ worst enemy | Jane Li | August 23, 2021 | QuartzIt is a separate state within Russia… And in this state there is a single, irreplaceable tsar.
The Inside Story of How Alexey Navalny Uncovered Putin's $1.3 Billion Palace | Madeline Roache | January 29, 2021 | TimeHe 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.
The Price of Being a Patton: Wrestling With the Legacy of America’s Most Famous General | Tim Teeman | May 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe killed his own son and heir by whacking him over the head with the monarchal staff in a tsar-ish fit of temper.
Russian History Is on Our Side: Putin Will Surely Screw Himself | P. J. O’Rourke | May 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne headline, decades earlier, must have struck him with the force of tsar Bomba.
Pale Fire and the Cold War: Redefining Vladimir Nabokov’s Masterpiece | Michael Weiss | October 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTRussian opera was then at a low ebb, and he only went to hear his favourite work, A Life for the tsar.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyBute was deceived as regards the tsar's intentions, and his words were spoken in the interest of Prussia.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntBut to consent was one thing: the how another: the mere suspicion of the willingness of Kaiser or tsar shook their thrones.
The Lord of the Sea | M. P. ShielOne was that I should form a liaison with some married lady; the other that I should become an adjutant to the tsar.
The World's Greatest Books, Vol X | VariousThe tsar's own physicians attended her, but she became no better, and at last it was realised that an operation was inevitable.
Adventures and Enthusiasms | E. V. Lucas
British Dictionary definitions for tsar
czar
/ (zɑː, tsɑː) /
(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
Origin of tsar
1- Also (less commonly): tzar
Derived forms of tsar
- tsardom or czardom, noun
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