tzar
n.
czar, emperor; title of Russian emperors before the Bolshevik Revolution
Tsar
Czar, csar, and tzar redirect here. For other uses, see
Tsar (disambiguation) Tsar (
Bulgarian,
Serbian: цар,
Russian , in
scientific transliteration respectively car and car' ), occasionally spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in
English, is a
Slavonic term designating certain
monarchs.Originally, and indeed during most of its history, the title tsar (derived from
Caesar) meant
Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, i.e., a ruler who has the same rank as a
Roman or
Byzantine emperor (or, according to Byzantine ideology, the most elevated position next to the one held by the Byzantine monarch) due to recognition by another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the
Pope or the
Ecumenical Patriarch). Occasionally, the word could be used to designate other, non-Christian supreme rulers. In Russia and Bulgaria, the imperial connotations of the term were blurred with time and by the 19th century it had come to be viewed as an equivalent of
king,. The modern languages of these countries use it as a general term for a monarch. For example, the title of the Bulgarian monarchs in the 20th century was not generally interpreted as imperial.
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tzar
Noun
1. a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
(synonym) czar, tsar
(hypernym) sovereign, crowned head, monarch
(hyponym) Alexander I, Czar Alexander I, Aleksandr Pavlovich
(classification) Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR
tsar (m)
n.
tsar, czar, title of Russian emperors before the Bolshevik Revolution
Tzar
(n.)
The emperor of Russia. See Czar.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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