Dictionary entry

Tsar

Pronunciation: /zɑː/

Pronunciation

/zɑː/

Myanmar Meaning

(also tzar , czar ) ယခင်ရုရှားဘုရင်၏ဘွဲ့။ ဇာဘုရင်။

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

  1. ‘The idea of absolute state sovereignty is relatively new
  2. and it derives from agreements among kings
  3. emperors
  4. kaisers
  5. and czars for their mutual benefit.’
  6. ‘In the Russian empire of the tsars there had been no national republics
  7. just non-ethnic provinces.’
  8. ‘In 1832
  9. Baron Schilling
  10. a Russian diplomat
  11. linked the Summer Palace of the tsar in St Petersburg to the Winter Palace using a telegraph with rotating magnetized needles.’
  12. ‘Under Peter the Great
  13. the Romanov tsar who ruled from 1682 to 1725
  14. Russia began a period of imperial expansion that continued into the Soviet period.’
  15. ‘The other superpowers had been shocked when the czar of Russia extended an invitation to the king of Spain.’
  16. ‘Europe's Slavonic eastern frontier zone was covered by the kingdom of Poland-Lithuania
  17. and the realms of the tsar of Russia.’
  18. ‘They are supposed to take pride in their country
  19. delight in Russia's tsars
  20. armies and brave field commanders
  21. and revel in the nation's scientific discoveries and success stories.’
  22. ‘When Washington was elected President of the United States in 1789
  23. the Holy Roman Empire still existed
  24. France had a king
  25. Russia had a tsar
  26. China had an emperor and Japan had a shogun - none of which exist today.’
  27. ‘The grand dukes became the tsars of Muscovy
  28. who in turn became emperors of the Russian Empire.’
  29. ‘The epic sweep of history is effectively captured in the many fluid crowd scenes
  30. while the private tragedy of the guilt-ridden czar Boris
  31. his family
  32. and his enemies is brought sharply into focus.’
  33. ‘The crowned heads of Europe - kings
  34. tsars
  35. and kaisers - still entertained each other at regattas
  36. manœuvres
  37. weddings
  38. and funerals.’
  39. ‘For the tsar
  40. Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners.’
  41. ‘Whenever political theorists looked for a contemporary example of such a government
  42. their eyes fell upon either the Ottoman sultans or the Russian tsars and tsarinas.’
  43. ‘The Jews must be utterly loyal to the tsar or emperor
  44. and be willing to die for him
  45. yet they also must respect the judiciary as an intermediary between individuals.’
  46. ‘When he abdicated in 1917
  47. Nicholas II
  48. tsar of Russia
  49. rather hoped he might have been allowed to live out the rest of his days in peace with his family in the Crimea.’
  50. ‘At midnight we boarded a train to Saint Petersburg
  51. once home of the czars and Russia's most European city.’
  52. ‘For 51 days
  53. the Soviet of Workers' Deputies in the then Russian capital St Petersburg had been an alternative power to the tsar
  54. Russia's absolute monarch.’
  55. ‘The last czar of Russia
  56. and his czarina
  57. Alexandra