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nouna group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization
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nounthe domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised
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"the British created a great empire"nouna group of countries under a single authoritytype of:
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Definition that contains empire
- frank a member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century
- ancient belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
- rome capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
- emperor the male ruler of an empire
- 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
- roman an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire
- italy a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD
- turkey a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
- catherine empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)
- egypt an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament