Meaning

1 senses
  1. The mother or widow of an emperor, especially in a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese empire.

    Kaiserinmutter

    вдо́вствующая императри́цаvdóvstvujuščaja imperatríca

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Empress Dowager Cixi held control in China for forty-seven years.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
mother of an emperor:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
mother of an emperor:

Forms

plural: empress dowagers / empresses dowager / empresses dowagers

See also

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