Kaiser
pronunciation
How to pronounce Kaiser in British English:
UK [ˈkaɪzə(r)]
How to pronounce Kaiser in American English:
US [ˈkaɪzər]
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- Noun:
- the title of the Holy Roman Emperors or the emperors of Austria or of Germany until 1918
Word Origin
- kaiser (n.)
- "an emperor," Old English casere, fallen from use after Middle English, but revived 1858 in reference to the German emperors of Austria and, after 1870, Germany, from German Kaiser, from Bavarian and Austrian spelling of Middle High German keisar, from Old High German keisar "emperor," an early borrowing of Latin cognomen Caesar. The Germanic and Slavic peoples seem to have called all Roman emperors "caesar" (compare Old English casere, Old Norse keisari). Said to be the earliest Latin loan word in Germanic.
Example
- 1. He had acquired secrets which enabled him to blackmail the chancellor and many of the kaiser 's intimates .
- 2. So china is a long way from posing the kind of challenge to america that the kaiser 's germany posed to britain in 1900 .
- 3. Kraepelin retired from teaching at the age of 66 and devoted his remaining years to establishing the german institute for psychiatric research , which became a kaiser wilhelm institute within the university of munich .
- 4. You can hear this effect for yourselves because a large number of the great and good of the victorian era made recordings of their voices among them robert browning and alfred lord tennyson sarah bernhardt florence nightingale and monarchs such as tsar nicholas ii and kaiser wilhelm ii .
- 5. You can hear this effect for yourselves , because a large number of the great and good of the victorian era made recordings of their voices , among them robert browning and alfred lord tennyson , sarah bernhardt , florence nightingale , and monarchs such as tsar nicholas ii and kaiser wilhelm ii .