What's the difference between emperor and empress?

Emperor


Definition:

  • (n.) The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After the emperor's death, they are named after an era chosen for them; thus Hirohito is known exclusively in Japan as Showa Emperor.
  • (2) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
  • (3) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
  • (4) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
  • (5) As the key leave campaigner Boris Johnson said in his biography of Winston Churchill two years ago, the European Union, together with Nato, “has helped to deliver a period of peace and prosperity for its people as long as any since the days of the Antonine emperors”.
  • (6) Emperor of Milton Keynes Facebook Twitter Pinterest A purple emperor was spotted in Milton Keynes last year.
  • (7) The former foreign secretary, William Hague, warned earlier this month that central bankers could lose their independence if they ignored public anger over low interest rates, while Michael Gove, the leading pro-leave campaigner and former cabinet minister, compared Carney to the Chinese emperor Ming , whose “person was held to be inviolable and without imperfections” and whose critics were flayed alive.
  • (8) The great god Pan is dead, as a voice was heard to cry by sailors in the age of the Roman emperor Augustus.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
  • (10) Reagan, after whom buildings, streets and even airports are widely named, would thus become America's Marcus Aurelius, the philosoper emperor of Rome whose death in AD 180 presaged its long, slow decline.
  • (11) Heart rate during overnight rest and while diving were recorded from five emperor penguins with a microprocessor-controlled submersible recorder.
  • (12) Gombrich calls Shih Huang-Ti, the emperor who incinerated all books apart from agricultural manuals, 'an enemy of history'.
  • (13) In both sexes and species, plasma LH and gonadal steroids were severalfold above basal level at the time of arrival on the breeding grounds, suggesting that environmental cues (especially decreasing daylength in emperors) rather than mating and courting primarily stimulate gonadal development and reproduction.
  • (14) Originally a striker who once fed off his brother's long balls to score goals galore in a local team in Petrópolis (a mountain town near Rio and historically important for hosting the Brazilian emperor's summer palace), at Fluminense he struggled to find a place until the first‑choice left-back was dropped because of forged documentation.
  • (15) Having finished a cure there, Archduchess Sophie, who had been childless, gave birth to a son, who subsequently became Emperor Franz Joseph.
  • (16) Tiananmen - the Gate of Heavenly Peace - marks the southern boundary of the Forbidden City, the seat of China's emperors for centuries.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Supreme Leader Snoke finally has his answer Andy Serkis’s First Order bad guy No 1 was the first voice we heard in the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens a year ago, asking: “There has been an awakening ... have you felt it?” Twelve months on we discover he’s addressing hooded Vader fanboy Kylo Ren (played by Adam Driver) who responds simply: “Yes.” This dynamic pitches the pair as the Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader of the new movie, and yet continues to raise further questions.
  • (18) Emperor's approval was received 26th june 1862 and in july Purkynĕ was elected the first president.
  • (19) The structure will dwarf nearby buildings, including the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, an officially recognised cultural asset built in 1926 to honour the emperor and empress dowager Shoken.
  • (20) Yamamoto denied any intention to use the emperor for political purposes – a possible infringement of the postwar constitution, which relegates the emperor to a non-political, ceremonial role.

Empress


Definition:

  • (n.) The consort of an emperor.
  • (n.) A female sovereign.
  • (n.) A sovereign mistress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ava had moved to London to star opposite James Mason as the Empress of Austria in the film Mayerling .
  • (2) He is a regular panellist on comedy news quizzes, and reaches for Wodehouse in depicting 70s foreign secretary Lord Home "playing Lord Emsworth to Heath's Empress of Blandings".
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
  • (4) The structure will dwarf nearby buildings, including the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, an officially recognised cultural asset built in 1926 to honour the emperor and empress dowager Shoken.
  • (5) He was a talented musician and spent happy days as first violinist in the orchestra on the ocean liner the Empress of Britain, believing that the sea air helped him recover from the effects of the gas, though he always suffered bouts of bronchitis.
  • (6) She also played the Empress Alexandra in Gleb Panfilov’s Russian film The Romanovs: A Crowned Family (2000), about the last year and a half of the lives of Tsar Nicholas II and his family until their execution in July 1918.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Empress Michiko (pictured with Emperor Akihoto and Kumamoto’s governor) asked whether Kumamon was single, in 2013.
  • (8) The mean forces of fracture were 964 N for In-Ceram crowns, 814 N for paint-on IPS Empress crowns, and 750 N for layered IPS Empress crowns, compared with 1,494 N for metal ceramic crowns veneered on a nickel-chromium coping.
  • (9) The Guardian has spoken to the former empress about the museum and its remarkable collection on the occasion of an exhibition showing some of the art pieces for the first time .
  • (10) The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist site, attacked Ioffe in a blogpost titled: “Empress Melania Attacked by Filthy Russian Kike Julia Ioffe in GQ!” Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) .
  • (11) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
  • (12) Recently introduced with pleasing aesthetic qualities, IPS-Empress (Ivoclar, Schaan, Liechtenstein), a new European leucite-reinforced glass-ceramic, has finally drawn attention in some journals and has been reviewed with promising in vitro test results.
  • (13) A friend of Heywood tells the Guardian the businessman had accused Gu of being "mentally unstable" and behaving like an unforgiving "empress".
  • (14) Tang dynasty records show that two of the bear-like beasts were presented to the Japanese court during the reign of the empress Wu Zetian (624 to 705).
  • (15) Shinzo Abe bows to Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko during a national memorial service for the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
  • (16) He’s not sexy, but when the Empress Michiko met Kumamon – at her request – during the imperial couple’s visit to Kumamoto in 2013, she asked him: “Are you single?” A birthday cake was rolled out, and the crowd sang Happy Birthday.
  • (17) It's harrowing to hear accounts of the 1996 Sea Empress disaster in your native Pembrokeshire, even though the clean-up effort was effective and quick (thanks to volunteers), and the weather and the tide washed the oil out of the bay relatively quickly.
  • (18) " Over the next 40 minutes, her phone rings many times: more than once, it's the Swedish pop empress Robyn with whom she is shooting a video in the morning (Cherry answers the calls in Swedish).
  • (19) Did some ancestor of Dave's visit St Petersburg and conduct a bit of nocturnal diplomacy with the empress?
  • (20) Bringing back Corvo, hero of the original, you can also now play as his daughter Emily, who is the ruling empress but conveniently also a dangerously potent assassin.