noun · rare

czar

czar · czars

цар

царь, император, король

Zar

An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific areaAn appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.

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/zɑː(ɹ)/

» The czar was the ruler of Russia.

Der Zar war der Herrscher Russlands.

Meaning

1 senses

(Philippine, US, informal)An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
drug czar
cyberczar

More definitions

a person having great power
a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

Examples

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The czar was the ruler of Russia.
deDer Zar war der Herrscher Russlands.
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Putin has had two statues of the last czar erected.
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He studied the czar.
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He studied the czars.
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The czar issued an edict.
ruЦарь выпустил указ.
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Origin

See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from the book Notes on M

See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from the book Notes on Muscovite Affairs (1549) by Sigismund von Herberstein. It was supplanted by the alternative tsar in the 19th century.

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