Dictionary entry
Uncorroborated
Pronunciation: /ʌnkəˈrɒbəreɪtɪd/
Pronunciation
/ʌnkəˈrɒbəreɪtɪd/
Myanmar Meaning
မထောက်ခံသော။
Definition
tsar (also tzar, czar ) /zɑ:(r)/ n ယခင္႐ုရွားဘုရင္၏ဘြဲ႕။ ဇာဘုရင္။ ❏ tsarina (also tzarina, czarina ) /zɑ:'ri:nǝ/ n ယခင္ ႐ုရွားဘုရင္မ (သို႔) မိဖုရား၏ဘြဲ႕။
Examples
- ‘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