Definition of emperor in English:
1A sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire.
- The emperor and empress earlier in the day met with the king, who has been discharged from the hospital.
- The king is expected to invite the emperor and empress to a private dinner at his palace on Wednesday.
- At the end of the passage, there is a big hillock, under which the first Qing emperor and empress are buried.
the emperor's new clothes (also the emperor has no clothes)
- Used in reference to a situation in which people believe or pretend to believe in the worth or importance of something that is worthless, or fear to point out an obvious truth that is counter to prevailing opinion: is his white canvas a case of the emperor’s new clothes or is it something beautiful, even moving? this is the first time that anyone has stripped his work of its rhetoric and shown that this particular emperor has no clothes[after the title of the story Kejserens nye klæder (1837) by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (first translated into English as The Emperor's New Clothes in 1846), in which an emperor is tricked into thinking he is wearing beautiful new clothes, which all his courtiers pretend to admire, until a boy points out that he is in fact naked]More example sentences
- Most of what we viewed fell into the "emperor's new clothes" category.
- But virtually everyone is declaring the emperor has no clothes.
- Unfortunately it is a case of the emperor's new clothes: the critics and media say the actors are wonderful - hence the punters pay stupid money to see them!
- Example sentences
- The only check on that power is the spasmodic eruption of pseudo-scandal, a brief orgy of blood-letting as used to occur between emperorships in ancient Rome.
- Helping him is Wu Yip, who has designs on the emperorship of China.
- In this way, the astronomical clock and the water mill became two different embodiments of the same emperorship in science.