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Definition: Tsar |
TsarNoun1. A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tsar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TSAR | English | Time-Sharing Activity Report System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TsarSynonyms: czar (n), tzar (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Master | Ceasar, kaiser, czar, tsar, sultan, soldan, grand Turk, caliph, imaum, shah, padishah, sophi, mogul, great mogul, khan, lama, tycoon, mikado, tenno, inca, cazique; voivode; landamman; seyyid; Abuna, cacique, czarowitz, grand seignior. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tsar |
| English words defined with "tsar": ukase. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tsar" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (czar, tsar, tzar), Manx (Tsar), Portuguese (czar), Swedish (czar, tsar, tzar). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tsar i general (1966) Par ordre du tsar (1954) Negovo velichestvo tsar Boris III - obedinitel (1943) Poet i tsar (1938) Au service du tsar (1937) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Kuklin House (1790s; after 1817), Governor's Mansion. The deposed tsar Nicholas II lived here with his family from August 1917 until mid April 1918, Tobol'sk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Russia | The ruinous effects of World War I, combined with internal pressures, sparked the March 1917 uprising, which led Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate the throne. (references) |
Bulgaria | Several years later, the First Bulgarian Kingdom or the "Golden Age" emerged under Tsar Simeon I in 893-927. During this time, Bulgarian art and literature flourished. (references) | |
Russia | Ivan III (1462-1505) was able to refer to his empire as "the Third Rome" and heir to the Byzantine tradition, and a century later the Romanov dynasty was established under Tsar Mikhail in 1613. (references) | |
Political Economy | Bulgaria | The National Movement Simeon II, political vehicle of the former exiled Tsar Simeon Saxe-Coburg won half of the 240 seats in Bulgaria's unicameral legislature, and is expected to form a government, probably in coalition with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which is generally seen as representing Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish minority. (references) |
Bulgaria | Early expectations were that 2001 parliamentary elections would follow a similar course, with the UDF holding on to at least a plurality ahead of the BSP. All that changed, however, with the return to the country of Simeon II, the former Tsar who had lived most of his life in exile in Madrid since leaving Bulgaria as a boy after World War II. Simeon Saxe-Coburg brought together a diverse group of individuals in the National Movement Simeon II and, although he did not run for a seat in parliament himself, swept aside both the UDF and BSP in coming just one seat short of an absolute majority in the new National Assembly. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tsar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.93% of the time. "Tsar" is used about 494 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 72.93% | 361 | 14,936 |
| Noun (proper) | 27.07% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Total | 100.00% | 494 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tsar": tsar-reformer, tsar-trek. | |
Ending with "tsar": Super-tsar. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tsar | 153 | alexander tsar | 3 |
tsar nicholas ii | 31 | coronation russian tsar | 3 |
tsar nicholas | 27 | bomb tsar | 3 |
ii nicholas picture tsar | 10 | lyrics tsar | 3 |
bomba tsar | 9 | god save tsar | 3 |
de russie tsar | 8 | great peter tsar | 3 |
russian tsar | 8 | last russia tsar | 3 |
2 nicholas tsar | 7 | peter tsar | 3 |
russia tsar | 7 | communion tsar | 3 |
tsar cologne | 6 | alexandra nicholas tsar | 2 |
alexander iii tsar | 5 | first russia tsar | 2 |
alexander ii tsar | 5 | last tsar | 2 |
first tsar | 4 | ivan terrible tsar | 2 |
family ii nicholas romanov romanov tsar | 3 | caviar nicoulai tsar | 2 |
alexander i tsar | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tsar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | car (czar, king, tzar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قيصر (czar, emperor, kaiser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | цар (czar, king, prince, tzar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | car (czar, tzar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تزار (Czar), امپراتورروسیه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tsaari (Czar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tsar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zar (czar, tzar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τσάροσ (czar, tzar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cár (czar, czarevitch, tzar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zar (czar), czar (czar, tzar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Tsar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artsay czar (czar, tzar). (various references) ţar (czar, tzar). (various references) царь (czar, tzar). (various references) car (czar, emperor, tzar). (various references) zar (czar, tzar). (various references) tsar (czar, tzar). (various references) çar (czar, tzar). (various references) цар (czar, tzar). (various references) Nga ho ng (czar, tzar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tsar": tsardom, tsardoms, tsarevna, tsarevnas, tsarina, tsarinas, tsarism, tsarisms, tsarist, tsarists, tsaritza, tsaritzas, tsars. (additional references) | |
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"Tsar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asar, astr, Isar, Otsar, taar, tarr, Tasar, tasq, Taszar, tavr, teser, tesser, toar, trar, ts, tsa, tsac, tsai, tsal, tsam, Ts'ao, tsara, tsare, tsere, Tsi, tsir, tso, Tssi, tsta, tsui, tuar, tvsat, twar, tyar, Tyser, tz, tzap, Tzara, tze, tzsar, Tzur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tsar" (pronounced zÄ"r or tsÄ"r) |
| 3 | z Ä" r | bazaar, Bazar, bizarre, czar. |
| 2 | -Ä" r | afar, ajar, ar, are, bar, Barre, boyar, car, Carr, char, cigar, dinar, disbar, far, gar, guitar, Haar, jar, lar, Mar, Navar, par, Parr, scar, spar, star, subpar, superstar, tar. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arts, rats, star, tars. | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ars, art, ras, rat, sat, tar, tas. | |
-2 letters: ar, as, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: airts, artsy, aster, astir, brats, carts, darts, drats, farts, frats, harts, karst, karts, marts, parts, prats, rafts, rants, rates, ratos, roast, rotas, satyr, scart, sitar, smart, sprat, stair, stare, stark, stars, start, strap, straw, stray, stria, sutra, swart, tahrs, tares, tarns, taros, tarps, tarsi, tarts, tears, toras, trams, trans, traps, trash, trass, trays, tsars, tzars, warts. | |
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