Empire Definition

–noun

1.	a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, French Empire, Russian Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire.

2.	a government under an emperor or empress.

3.	(often initial capital letter) the historical period during which a nation is under such a government: a history of the second French empire.

4.	supreme power in governing; imperial power; sovereignty: Austria's failure of empire in central Europe.

5.	supreme control; absolute sway: passion's empire over the mind.

6.	a powerful and important enterprise or holding of large scope that is controlled by a single person, family, or group of associates: The family's shipping empire was founded 50 years ago.

7.	(initial capital letter) a variety of apple somewhat resembling the McIntosh.

–adjective

8.	(initial capital letter) characteristic of or developed during the first French Empire, 1804–15.

9.	(usually initial capital letter) (of women's attire and coiffures) of the style that prevailed during the first French Empire, in clothing being characterized esp. by décolletage and a high waistline, coming just below the bust, from which the skirt hangs straight and loose.

10.

(often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to the style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevailing in France and imitated to a greater or lesser extent in various other countries, c1800–30: characterized by the use of delicate but elaborate ornamentation imitated from Greek and Roman examples or containing classical allusions, as animal forms for the legs of furniture, bas-reliefs of classical figures, motifs of wreaths, torches, caryatids, lyres, and urns and by the occasional use of military and Egyptian motifs and, under the Napoleonic Empire itself, of symbols alluding to Napoleon I, as bees or the letter N.

Earth Definition

–noun

1.

(often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 mi. (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 mi. (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million mi. (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.

2.	the inhabitants of this planet, esp. the human inhabitants: The whole earth rejoiced.

3.	this planet as the habitation of humans, often in contrast to heaven and hell: to create a hell on earth.

4.	the surface of this planet: to fall to earth.

5.	the solid matter of this planet; dry land; ground.

6.	soil and dirt, as distinguished from rock and sand; the softer part of the land.

7.	the hole of a burrowing animal; lair.

8.	Chemistry. any of several metallic oxides that are difficult to reduce, as alumina, zirconia, and yttria. Compare alkaline earth, rare earth.

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9.	Also called earth color. Fine Arts. any of various pigments consisting chiefly of iron oxides and tending toward brown in hue.

10.	Chiefly British Electronics. a ground.

11.	Archaic. a land or country.

–verb (used with object)

12.	Chiefly British Electronics. to ground.

—Idioms

13.	move heaven and earth. heaven (def. 7).

14.	on earth, in the world: Where on earth have you been?

15.	run to earth, a. Hunting. to chase (an animal) into its hole or burrow: to run a fox to earth. b. to search out; track down: They ran the fugitive to earth in Algiers.

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