Search Result for "imperial":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III;
[syn: imperial, imperial beard]

2. a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach;


ADJECTIVE (4)

1. relating to or associated with an empire;
- Example: "imperial colony"
- Example: "the imperial gallon was standardized legally throughout the British Empire"

2. of or belonging to the British Imperial System of weights and measures;

3. befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress;
- Example: "imperial palace"

4. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler;
- Example: "golden age of imperial splendor"
- Example: "purple tyrant"
- Example: "regal attire"
- Example: "treated with royal acclaim"
- Example: "the royal carriage of a stag's head"
[syn: imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Imperial \Im*pe"ri*al\, a. [OE. emperial, OF. emperial, F.
   imp['e]rial, fr. L. imperialis, fr. imperium command,
   sovereignty, empire. See Empire.]
   1. Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an
      imperial government; imperial authority or edict.
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            The last
            That wore the imperial diadem of Rome. --Shak.
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   2. Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one
      who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme. "The imperial
      democracy of Athens." --Mitford.
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            Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns
            With an imperial voice.               --Shak.
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            To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
            These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. --Dryden.
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            He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line
            of battle.                            --E. Everett.
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   3. Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial
      paper; imperial tea, etc.
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   Imperial bushel, gallon, etc. See Bushel, Gallon,
      etc.

   Imperial chamber, the, the sovereign court of the old
      German empire.

   Imperial city, under the first German empire, a city having
      no head but the emperor.

   Imperial diet, an assembly of all the states of the German
      empire.

   Imperial drill. (Manuf.) See under 8th Drill.

   Imperial eagle. (Zool.) See Eagle.

   Imperial green. See Paris green, under Green.

   Imperial guard, the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I.


   Imperial weights and measures, the standards legalized by
      the British Parliament.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Imperial \Im*pe"ri*al\, n. [F. imp['e]riale: cf. Sp. imperial.]
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   1. The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so
      called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.
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   2. An outside seat on a diligence. --T. Hughes.
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   3. A luggage case on the top of a coach. --Simmonds.
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   4. Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large
      decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of
      drawing, printing, or writing paper, etc.
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   5. A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight
      dollars. --McElrath.
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   6. A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or
      other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages.
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   7. A game at cards differing from piquet in some minor
      details, and in having a trump; also, any one of several
      combinations of cards which score in this game.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Imperial, CA (city, FIPS 36280)
  Location: 32.84051 N, 115.57103 W
  Population (1990): 4113 (1372 housing units)
  Area: 6.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 92251
Imperial, MO (CDP, FIPS 34354)
  Location: 38.36773 N, 90.37222 W
  Population (1990): 4156 (1564 housing units)
  Area: 14.0 sq km (land), 1.9 sq km (water)
Imperial, NE (city, FIPS 23690)
  Location: 40.51623 N, 101.63761 W
  Population (1990): 2007 (870 housing units)
  Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 69033
Imperial, PA
  Zip code(s): 15126
Imperial, TX
  Zip code(s): 79743


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

84 Moby Thesaurus words for "imperial":
   Vandyke, absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, arbitrary,
   aristocratic, arrogant, august, authoritarian, authoritative,
   autocratic, beard, beaver, bossy, bristles, crown, despotic,
   dictatorial, domineering, down, duodecimo, dynastic, eighteenmo,
   exalted, excellent, feudal, folio, goatee, grand, grinding,
   high-handed, imperative, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperious,
   imposing, kinglike, kingly, lofty, lordly, magisterial, magistral,
   magnificent, majestic, masterful, medium, monarchal, monarchial,
   monarchic, monocratic, noble, octavo, octodecimo, oppressive,
   overbearing, overruling, peach fuzz, peremptory, princelike,
   princely, purple, quarto, queenlike, queenly, regal, repressive,
   royal, severe, sextodecimo, side whiskers, sixteenmo, sovereign,
   splendid, strict, stubble, super, superior, suppressive, supreme,
   tuft, twelvemo, tyrannical, tyrannous, whiskers