emperor

1. The male ruler of an empire (synset 110072812)
   is a type of: crowned head, monarch, sovereign - a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
   subtypes:

   • empress - a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
   • holy roman emperor - sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire
   • kaiser - the title of the Holy Roman Emperors or the emperors of Austria or of Germany until 1918
   • mikado, tenno - the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno
   • emperor of rome, roman emperor - sovereign of the Roman Empire
   • romanoff, romanov - a member of the imperial family that ruled Russia
   specific instances:

   • francis joseph, francis joseph i, franz josef i, franz joseph - emperor of Austria and king of Hungary; was defeated by Napoleon III at the battle of Magenta (1830-1916)
   • genghis khan, jenghiz khan, jinghis khan, temujin - Mongolian emperor whose empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean (1162-1227)
   • haile selassie, ras tafari, ras tafari makonnen - emperor of Ethiopia; worshipped by Rastafarians (1892-1975)
   • hirohito, michinomiya hirohito - emperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989)
   • justinian, justinian i, justinian the great - Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565)
   • kubla khan, kublai kaan, kublai khan - Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China; he establish the Yuan dynasty and built a great capital on the site of modern Beijing where he received Marco Polo (1216-1294)
   • meiji tenno, mutsuhito - emperor of Japan who encouraged the modernization of Japan (1852-1912)
   • montezuma ii - the last Aztec emperor in Mexico who was overthrown and killed by Hernando Cortes (1466-1520)
   • bonaparte, little corporal, napoleon, napoleon bonaparte, napoleon i - French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
   • charles louis napoleon bonaparte, emperor napoleon iii, napoleon iii - nephew of Napoleon I and emperor of the French from 1852 to 1871 (1808-1873)
   • ch'in shih huang ti, qin shi huang ti - the first Qin emperor who unified China, built much of the Great Wall, standardized weights and measures, and created a common currency and legal system (died 210 BC)
   • shah jahan - Mogul emperor of India during whose reign the finest monuments of Mogul architecture were built (including the Taj Mahal at Agra) (1592-1666)
2. Red table grape of California (synset 107776046)
   is a type of: vinifera grape - grape from a cultivated variety of the common grape vine of Europe
3. Large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings (synset 102304587)
   is a type of: saturniid, saturniid moth - large brightly colored and usually tropical moth; larvae spin silken cocoons
   belongs to: genus saturnia, saturnia - type genus of the Saturniidae: emperor moth
   same as: emperor moth, saturnia pavonia
4. Large richly colored butterfly (synset 102281491)
   is a type of: brush-footed butterfly, four-footed butterfly, nymphalid, nymphalid butterfly - medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast
   subtypes: apatura iris, purple emperor - large European butterfly the male of which has wings shaded with purple
   belongs to: apatura, genus apatura - large Old World butterflies
   same as: emperor butterfly

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