emperors
Rulers of realms
Emperors is the plural of emperor, a male sovereign who rules an empire—a domain larger or more powerful than a kingdom.
Historically, emperors held supreme authority over vast territories: the emperors of Rome, Chinese emperors.
The emperor penguin, the largest penguin species, takes its name from this sense of supremacy.
Successive family rulers
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- reignSovereign's time in power
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
decree · succession · palace · court · monarchy · pharaoh · tsar · shogun
Rome's inaugural emperor
- NapoleonFrench emperor, military genius
- CharlemagneEarly medieval Western unifier
- ConstantineEmperor who embraced Christianity
- NeroTyrannical first-century ruler
Hadrian · Akbar · Hirohito · Marcus Aurelius · Justinian · Genghis Khan · Montezuma · Haile Selassie
Power to enforce obedience
- absoluteTotal, without qualification
- autocratSole wielder of power
- dictatorRuler with total control
- supremeHighest in authority
command · dominance · conquest · territory · subjugation · tribute · vassal · expansion
God-granted ruling authority
- chrysanthemumOrnamental daisy relative
- purpleHue between crimson and azure
- Mandate of HeavenHeaven-granted authority to rule
- kowtowExcessive deference shown physically
eunuch · concubine · terracotta · mausoleum · pantheon · deification · cult · apotheosis
Flightless aquatic southern bird
- AntarcticaSouthernmost continental landmass
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- chickYoung bird, especially poultry
huddle · march · flightless · mate · egg · incubation · krill · plumage
dynasty
Successive family rulers
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- reignSovereign's time in power
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
coronation · decree · succession · palace · court · monarchy · pharaoh · tsar · shogun · kaiser
Augustus
Rome's inaugural emperor
- NapoleonFrench emperor, military genius
- CharlemagneEarly medieval Western unifier
- ConstantineEmperor who embraced Christianity
Nero · Hadrian · Akbar · Hirohito · Marcus Aurelius · Justinian · Genghis Khan · Montezuma · Haile Selassie · Wilhelm
authority
Power to enforce obedience
supreme · command · dominance · conquest · territory · subjugation · tribute · vassal · expansion · tyrant
divine right
God-granted ruling authority
- chrysanthemumOrnamental daisy relative
- purpleHue between crimson and azure
- Mandate of HeavenHeaven-granted authority to rule
kowtow · eunuch · concubine · terracotta · mausoleum · pantheon · deification · cult · apotheosis · legacy
penguin
Flightless aquatic southern bird
- AntarcticaSouthernmost continental landmass
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
chick · huddle · march · flightless · mate · egg · incubation · krill · plumage · rookery
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- Ancient RomansJulius Caesar, patricians, consuls, Marcus Aurelius, Nero
- history educationhistorian, history textbooks, textbook, history teachers, primary source
- Asian historyancient China, China, shoguns, Chinese civilization, Laozi
- Italian HistoryRome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Sicily
- African LeadersNelson Mandela, Haile Selassie, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Muammar Gaddafi
emperorscommoners
Ordinary citizens, untitled
peasants · serfs · the masses · proletariat · lowborn
emperorsdemocrats
Believers in popular sovereignty
elected representatives · the people · presidents · prime ministers · parliamentarians
- Holy Roman EmperorMedieval Germanic imperial monarch
- emperor's new clothesPretense everyone ignores
- emperor penguinsLargest Antarctic seabird species
- Roman emperorAntiquity's Italian sovereign
- Emperor Palpatine
- emperor's courtRuler's formal retinue