Definitions
a group of countries under a single authority
Word origin
From Middle English empire, from Old French empire, empere, from Latin imperium, inperium (“command, control, dominion, sovereignty, a dominion, empire”), from imperare, inperare (“to command, order”), from in (“in, on”) + parare (“to make ready, order”). Doublet of empery and imperium.
Used in a sentence
“the Russian empire”
“States and empires fail when they are no longer the solution, they are the problem.”
“The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Imperium”6 letters
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