tsar
pronunciation
How to pronounce tsar in British English:
UK [zɑ:(r)]
How to pronounce tsar in American English:
US [zɑr, tsɑr]
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- Noun:
- a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
Word Origin
- tsar
- tsar: [16] Caesar was a Roman cognomen (English gets caesarian from it) and from the days of Augustus was used as part of the title of ‘emperor’. The Germanic peoples took it over in this sense (it is the source of German kaiser) and passed it on to prehistoric Slavic as *tsēsari. This has evolved into Serbo-Croat and Bulgarian tsar and Russian tsar’ – source of English tsar.=> caesar
- tsar (n.)
- 1660s, the more correct Latinization of Russian czar, from prehistoric Slavic *tsesar, from a Germanic source, ultimately from Latin Caesar. See czar. Related: Tsardom; tsarevich; tsarina; tsarevna.
Example
- 1. He sees a future finance tsar as having three main tasks .
- 2. Kenneth feinberg , the administration 's pay tsar , has imposed restrictions on firms that have taken lots of government cash .
- 3. Visitors came from far and wide , and included a future tsar of russia .
- 4. With geopolitics in the background , the tsar 's move can be seen as a power play .
- 5. One man commanded a foremost position in the negotiations tsar peter of russia .