tzar
English Thesaurus
1. a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) (noun.person)
| instance hyponym | : | czar nicholas i, nicholas i, |
| definition | : | czar of Russia from 1825 to 1855 who led Russia into the Crimean War (1796-1855) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | nicholas ii, |
| definition | : | the last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution; he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks (1868-1918) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | czar peter i, peter i, peter the great, |
| definition | : | czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government; he extended his territories in the Baltic and founded St. Petersburg (1682-1725) (noun.person) |
| domain region | : | russia, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.location) |
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