noun
1. a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
• Regions: ↑Russia
• Hypernyms: ↑sovereign, ↑crowned head, ↑monarch
• Instance Hyponyms:
↑Alexander I, ↑Czar Alexander I, ↑Aleksandr Pavlovich, ↑Alexander II, ↑Czar Alexander II, ↑Alexander the Liberator, ↑Alexander III, ↑Czar Alexander III, ↑Godunov, ↑Boris Godunov, ↑Boris Fyodorovich Godunov, ↑Ivan IV, ↑Ivan Iv Vasilievich, ↑Ivan the Terrible, ↑Nicholas I, ↑Czar Nicholas I, ↑Nicholas II, ↑Peter I, ↑Czar Peter I, ↑Peter the Great
2. a person having great power
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czar «zahr», noun.
1. an emperor. When Russia had an emperor, his title was czar.
2. Figurative. a person with absolute or dictatorial power; autocrat: »
the czar of baseball, the czar of the underworld.
SYNONYM(S): monarch, dictator. Also, tsar, tzar.╂[< Russian car', ultimately < Latin Caesar Caesar. See etym. of doublets Caesar (Cf. ↑Caesar), Kaiser. (Cf. ↑Kaiser)]
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[zär; (t)sär]1) variant spelling of tsar
2) a person with great authority or power in a particular area
America's new drug czar
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Derivatives:
Origin:
from Russian tsar', representing Latin Caesar
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1 : the title of the ruler of Russia before 1917
Russia's Czar Nicholas II
2 chiefly US
2 a : a very powerful person in a particular business or activity
a banking czar
2 b
— used as an unofficial title for the person who is in charge of a government office or department
The President has appointed a new drug czar.
the education/housing/terrorism czar
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czar [czar czars] ; czar • ina czar • ism czar • ist
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czar(tsɑː(r))
[Russ. tsarp],
formerly the usual spelling of tsar, q.v. for etymology and history. Hence ˈczarate, ˈczardom, ˈczarevitch, czaˈrevna, ˈczarian, ˈczaricide, czaˈrina, ˈczarish, ˈczarism, czaˈritza, czarship, etc.: see tsarate, tsardom, etc.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.