Definition: 1. The domain ruled by an emperor or empress. 2. A group of countries under a single authority. 3. A monarchy with an emperor as head of state. 4. A group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization.
Use 'empire' in a sentence:
1. the twilight years of the Habsburg empire.
2. A year later, in 1931, the Empire State Building became the new winner.
3. She published historical novels, as well as a non-fiction study of women in the British Empire.
4. Under the great reforms, Qin grew strong and united all the states, becoming the first empire of China.
5. New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.
6. Many investors must be hoping that he will be dethroned, his publishing empire dismembered.
7. The Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Persian Empire in 539 BCE.
8. Statues of him in different roles were sent all over the empire.
9. There a new dynasty, uniting the country's west and east, set out to create a great empire.
10. The dead tycoon's sons will remain in their plush offices overseeing the death throes of the family empire.
11. As the Roman Empire expanded northward, it organised its activity chart for the most part around the solar year.
12. The great empire has ceased to be.
13. During October 1918 the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to disintegrate.
14. I explored the Roman Empire, Babylon, the times of Noah, and Abraham. Any era you can name, I went there.
15. The Roman Empire was divided in the fourth century AD.
16. The Roman Empire was overrun by Nordic barbarians.
17. The British began to copy the French, and the restaurant idea spread throughout the British Empire.
18. Portugal and Spain had possessed vast empires that waxed and waned.
19. She felt herself to be part of a large business empire.
20. The Roman Empire began to decay.
21. This strange characteristic of concrete made a significant contribution to the success of the Roman Empire.
22. He once ruled over a vast empire.
23. The French empire had expanded largely through military conquest.
24. The subject peoples of her empire were anxious for their own independence.
25. Our lives have straddled a period of greater change than perhaps any since the end of the Roman Empire.
26. Under the Emperor Augustus at the height of the Roman Empire, portrait statues were sent throughout the empire.
27. The empire could not cohere as a legitimate whole.
28. Banc One of Ohio has built an empire in the midwest by gobbling up smaller banks.
29. They applied this principle all across the Roman Empire.
30. The British Empire flourished in the 19th century.
31. It's spoken in many countries of the world because of the British Empire.
32. This is what an empire looks like when it falls.
33. He ruled over a great empire.
34. In the Drindian Empire, censuses were conducted annually to determine the population of each village.
35. He now controls the largest retail development empire in southern California.
36. The empire had for years been falling into decadence.
37. You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve.
38. He eventually constructed a business empire which ran to Thailand and Singapore.
39. The new Turkish republic he helped to build emerged from the ruins of a great empire.
40. His business empire was vast.
41. She once ruled over a vast empire.
42. He was content to watch from the sidelines as his wife built up a successful business empire.
43. The empire finally crumbled into dust.
44. The Empire State Building is a familiar landmark on the New York skyline.
45. The Ottoman empire was a Sunni state.
46. His widow has taken over the running of his empire, including six London theatres.
47. His widow has taken over the running of his empire, including six theatres.
48. The Roman Empire subjected most of Europe to its rule.
49. His business empire collapsed under a massive burden of debt.
