tsar
/zɑː/
US pronunciation
American sound/zɑː/
tsar
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
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- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Open ah vowel
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- Final r is pronounced in US English
US voice -> tsar
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- ‘The idea of absolute state sovereignty is relatively new, and it derives from agreements among kings, emperors, kaisers, and czars for their mutual benefit.’
- ‘In the Russian empire of the tsars there had been no national republics, just non-ethnic provinces.’
- ‘In 1832, Baron Schilling, a Russian diplomat, linked the Summer Palace of the tsar in St Petersburg to the Winter Palace using a telegraph with rotating magnetized needles.’
- ‘Under Peter the Great, the Romanov tsar who ruled from 1682 to 1725, Russia began a period of imperial expansion that continued into the Soviet period.’
- ‘The other superpowers had been shocked when the czar of Russia extended an invitation to the king of Spain.’
- ‘Europe's Slavonic eastern frontier zone was covered by the kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, and the realms of the tsar of Russia.’
- ‘They are supposed to take pride in their country, delight in Russia's tsars, armies and brave field commanders, and revel in the nation's scientific discoveries and success stories.’
- ‘When Washington was elected President of the United States in 1789, the Holy Roman Empire still existed, France had a king, Russia had a tsar, China had an emperor and Japan had a shogun - none of which exist today.’
- ‘The grand dukes became the tsars of Muscovy, who in turn became emperors of the Russian Empire.’
- ‘The epic sweep of history is effectively captured in the many fluid crowd scenes, while the private tragedy of the guilt-ridden czar Boris, his family, and his enemies is brought sharply into focus.’
- ‘The crowned heads of Europe - kings, tsars, and kaisers - still entertained each other at regattas, manœuvres, weddings, and funerals.’
- ‘For the tsar, Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners.’
- ‘Whenever political theorists looked for a contemporary example of such a government, their eyes fell upon either the Ottoman sultans or the Russian tsars and tsarinas.’
- ‘The Jews must be utterly loyal to the tsar or emperor, and be willing to die for him, yet they also must respect the judiciary as an intermediary between individuals.’
- ‘When he abdicated in 1917, Nicholas II, tsar of Russia, rather hoped he might have been allowed to live out the rest of his days in peace with his family in the Crimea.’
- ‘At midnight we boarded a train to Saint Petersburg, once home of the czars and Russia's most European city.’
- ‘For 51 days, the Soviet of Workers' Deputies in the then Russian capital St Petersburg had been an alternative power to the tsar, Russia's absolute monarch.’
- ‘The last czar of Russia, and his czarina, Alexandra
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