czar

czar  (zär, tsär)

n.

1. also tsar or tzar (zär, tsär) A male monarch or emperor, especially one of the emperors who ruled Russia until the revolution of 1917.

2. A person having great power; an autocrat: "the square-jawed, ruddy complacency of Jack Farrell, the czar of the Fifteenth Street police station" Ernest Hemingway.

3. Informal An appointed official having special powers to regulate or supervise an activity: a racetrack czar; an energy czar.

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[Russian tsar', from Old Russian tssar, emperor, king, from Old Church Slavonic tssar, from Gothic kaisar, from Greek, from Latin Caesar, emperor; see caesar.]

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czardom n.

Usage Note: The word czar can also be spelled tsar. Czar is the most common form in American usage and the one nearly always employed in the extended senses "any tyrant" or informally, "one in authority." But tsar is preferred by most scholars of Slavic studies as a more accurate transliteration of the Russian and is often found in scholarly writing with reference to one of the Russian emperors.

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czar [zahr]

Noun

same as tsar

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	czar - a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) tsar, tzar Russia - a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917 crowned head, monarch, sovereign - a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
	2.	czar - a person having great power autocrat, despot, tyrant - a cruel and oppressive dictator

Translations

czar [zɑːʳ] n → zar m

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czar [zɑːʳ] n → tsar m

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czar [zɑːʳ] n → zar m inv