Usually means: Large state, multiple territories controlled.
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  1. Empire, empire: Merriam-Webster
  2. empire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Empire, Empire, empire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. empire, the Empire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Empire, empire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Empire, empire: Wordnik
  7. empire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Empire, empire: Wiktionary
  9. empire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. empire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. empire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Empire, empire: Dictionary.com
  13. empire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. empire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Empire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. empire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Empire: Rhymezone
  19. empire, empire (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. empire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. empire: FreeDictionary.org
  22. empire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Empire: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. empire: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. empire: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Empire: Legal dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. empire: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Empire (style), empire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. EMPIRE: Acronym Finder

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  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  2. Empire, The Empire: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A political state, often a monarchy, that has achieved a much greater current size than its initial size by conquering surrounding territories, cities or nations.
noun:  A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress.
noun:  The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them), when distinguished from the native territory of that power; imperial possessions.
noun:  An expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group.
noun:  (Absolute) control, dominion, sway.
adjective:  (fashion, furniture, art) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814).
adjective:  (of a woman's dress) Having the waistline just below the bust; featuring an empire waist.
adjective:  (British, dated, of wine) Produced in a dependency of the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Chicot County, Arkansas.
noun:  A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California.
noun:  A town in Clear Creek County, Colorado, named after the Empire State.
noun:  A census-designated place and former town in Dodge County and Bleckley County, Georgia.
noun:  An unincorporated community and coal town in Christian County, Kentucky.
noun:  A census-designated place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
noun:  A township and village therein, in Leelanau County, Michigan.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Butler County, Missouri.
noun:  A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada.
noun:  A village in Knox Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.
noun:  A district of the city of Coos Bay, Coos County, Oregon.
noun:  A town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A former community in Goshen County, Wyoming.
noun:  A number of other townships, listed under Empire Township.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of Empire. [(fashion, furniture, art) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814).]

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