IMPERIUM (imperia)

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Irregular inflected form: imperia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does imperium mean? 

• IMPERIUM (noun)
  The noun IMPERIUM has 2 senses:

1. the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised

2. supreme authority; absolute dominion

  Familiarity information: IMPERIUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

empire; imperium

Hypernyms ("imperium" is a kind of...):

demesne; domain; land (territory over which rule or control is exercised)

Instance hyponyms:

Roman Empire (an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome)

Egypt; Egyptian Empire (an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament)

Persia; Persian Empire (an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC)

Russia (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)

Ottoman Empire; Turkish Empire (a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Supreme authority; absolute dominion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("imperium" is a kind of...):

authorisation; authority; authorization; dominance; potency; say-so (the power or right to give orders or make decisions)