empire
[zone: 1, ipm: 715.33]
Definitions
- a group of countries or states that are controlled by one ruler or government
Examples
- An empire is a group of countries ruled over by a single monarch or ruling power.
- An empire can have multiple dynasties ruling over it through its history without falling or dissolving.
- The British Empire comprised of Britain, the 'mother country', and the colonies, countries ruled to some degree by and from Britain.
- Russia was vast, but undeveloped; and the British Empire was mighty only on the sea.
- An empire stretches over regions the different economic and climatic conditions of which favour the production of different crops.
Collocations
- German [score: 10.95, freq: 1222] (the German Empire)
- British [score: 10.93, freq: 1639] (the British Empire)
- collapse [score: 10.65, freq: 19] (empire's collapse)
- structure [score: 10.41, freq: 16] (empire's structure)
- territory [score: 9.83, freq: 14] (empire's territory)
- Roman [score: 9.72, freq: 491] (the Roman Empire)
- security [score: 9.72, freq: 10] (empire's security)
- rule [score: 9.64, freq: 138] (ruled empire)
- delegation [score: 9.36, freq: 15] (empire delegation)
- colonial [score: 9.27, freq: 258] (colonial empire)
- possession [score: 9.24, freq: 9] (empire's possession)
- existence [score: 9.15, freq: 7] (empire's existence)
- capital [score: 9.07, freq: 7] (empire's capital)
- people [score: 9.01, freq: 7] (empire's people)
- Turkish [score: 9, freq: 181] (the Turkish Empire)
- Byzantine [score: 8.94, freq: 153] (the Byzantine Empire)
- divide [score: 8.85, freq: 89] (divided empire)
- history [score: 8.74, freq: 11] (empire's history)
- Western [score: 8.65, freq: 130] (the Western empire)
- Russian [score: 8.65, freq: 173] (the Russian Empire)
- force [score: 8.43, freq: 8] (empire's forces)
- vast [score: 8.23, freq: 111] (vast empire)
- overseas [score: 8.12, freq: 86] (overseas empire)
- French [score: 8.11, freq: 216] (the French Empire)
- extend [score: 8.05, freq: 50] (extended empire)
- Ottoman [score: 7.96, freq: 81] (the Ottoman Empire)
- Chinese [score: 7.87, freq: 89] (the Chinese Empire)
- Austrian [score: 7.84, freq: 84] (the Austrian Empire)
- Greek [score: 7.78, freq: 81] (the Greek Empire)
- Assyrian [score: 7.76, freq: 68] (the Assyrian Empire)
- colonial [score: 7.73, freq: 64] (colonial empire)
- expand [score: 7.73, freq: 30] (expanded empire)
- Indian [score: 7.68, freq: 78] (the Indian Empire)
- defend [score: 7.5, freq: 33] (defend the empire)
- destroy [score: 7.37, freq: 36] (destroyed empire)
- dominate [score: 7.28, freq: 22] (dominating empire)
- grow [score: 7.27, freq: 28] (growing empire)
- decline [score: 7.23, freq: 22] (declining empire)
- exist [score: 6.81, freq: 18] (existing empire)
- collapse [score: 6.76, freq: 14] (collapsing empire)
- Napoleon [score: 6.2, freq: 6] (Napoleon's empire)
Thesaurus
- state [score: 0.349, freq: 21685]
- country [score: 0.346, freq: 27816]
- nation [score: 0.335, freq: 15132]
- power [score: 0.32, freq: 28019]
- kingdom [score: 0.318, freq: 7611]
- colony [score: 0.313, freq: 11028]
- France [score: 0.313, freq: 22227]
- government [score: 0.312, freq: 28006]
- city [score: 0.281, freq: 15013]
- Germany [score: 0.278, freq: 11379]
- territory [score: 0.275, freq: 7765]
- people [score: 0.274, freq: 29977]
- army [score: 0.273, freq: 23956]
- world [score: 0.272, freq: 13890]
- Britain [score: 0.269, freq: 11685]
- province [score: 0.267, freq: 9133]
- monarchy [score: 0.264, freq: 4904]
- England [score: 0.263, freq: 16841]
- emperor [score: 0.258, freq: 13757]
- Europe [score: 0.25, freq: 9912]