empire
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
empire/ˈempʌɪə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 an extensive group of states ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state.
■ supreme power over several countries: his dream of empire in Asia Minor.
- 2 a large commercial organization under the control of one person or group.
'empire' also found in these Oxford entries:
aga
- Almohad
- Almoravid
- Bactrian
- BEM
- bey
- Britannic
- British
- Byzantine
- CBE
- commonwealth
- Count Palatine
- crescent
- Dark Ages
- DBE
- divan
- emperor
- Empire line
- GBE
- Goth
- Great Russian
- Hittite
- Holy Roman Empire
- imperator
- imperial
- imperium
- indiction
- kaiser
- KBE
- Kushan
- Latin
- macédoine
- margrave
- MBE
- Mede
- Middle Ages
- muscular Christianity
- nabob
- nawab
- OBE
- officer
- Orthodox Church
- Ottoman
- outpost
- palatinate
- particularism
- Pax Romana
- Phanariot
- procurator
