scepter
pronunciation
How to pronounce scepter in British English:
UK ['septə]
How to pronounce scepter in American English:
US [ˈsɛptɚ]
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- Noun:
- the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
Word Origin
- scepter (n.)
- c. 1300, ceptre, from Old French sceptre (12c.), from Latin sceptrum "royal staff," from Greek skeptron "staff to lean on; royal scepter;" in transferred use, "royalty," from root of skeptein "to prop or stay, lean on." Apparently a cognate with Old English sceaft (see shaft (n.1)). The verb meaning "to furnish with a scepter" is from 1520s. Related: sceptred.
Example
- 1. He would lower his scepter to spare your life ?
- 2. He holds the scepter of ra .
- 3. Afternoon budapest column cross crown europe fighter figure hero history holiday hungary landmark magyar parade scepter sky soft soldier square statue sunlight symbol travel tribes war .
- 4. Whether we as readers came of age in the americas , the antipodes or elsewhere in the far-flung commonwealth , the poems and novels we encountered in the last half of the 20th century came first and foremost from shakespeare 's scepter 'd isle .
- 5. It 's being slowly swallowed up by the nebula that is a new entity set up by putin known as the national people 's front , while united russia will now be led through the parliamentary elections by medvedev , a man who was just publicly stripped of his scepter .