Empress
[em-pris] /ˈɛm prɪs/
noun
1.
a female ruler of an empire.
2.
the consort of an .
/ˈɛmprɪs/
noun
1.
the wife or widow of an emperor
2.
a woman who holds the rank of emperor in her own right
3.
a woman of great power and influence
n.
mid-12c., emperice, from Old French emperesse, fem. of emperere (see emperor). Queen Victoria in 1876 became one as “Empress of India.”
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