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tsar

(zär, tsär)

Variant of czar.. See Usage Note at czar.

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tsar

(zɑː; tsɑː) or

czar

1. (Historical Terms) (until 1917) the emperor of Russia

2. a tyrant; autocrat

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) informal a public official charged with responsibility for dealing with a certain problem or issue: a drugs tsar.

4. informal a person in authority; leader

5. (Historical Terms) (formerly) any of several S Slavonic rulers, such as any of the princes of Serbia in the 14th century

Also (less commonly): tzar

[from Russian tsar, via Gothic kaisar from Latin Caesar]

ˈtsardom, ˈczardom n

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czar

or tsar

(zɑr, tsɑr)

n.

1. an emperor or king.

2. (often cap.) the former emperor of Russia.

3. an autocratic ruler or leader.

4. any person exercising great authority or power: a czar of industry.

[1545–55; < Russian tsar', Old Russian tsĭsarĭ emperor, king (akin to Old Church Slavonic tsěsarĭ) < Gothic kaisar emperor (< Greek or Latin); Greek kaîsar < Latin Caesar Caesar]

czar′dom, n.

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Noun

tsar - a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

czar, tzar

Russia - a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917

crowned head, monarch, sovereign - a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

tsar

czar

noun

1. ruler, leader, emperor, sovereign, tyrant, despot, overlord, autocrat Princess Anne is related to the Tsar of Russia.

2. (Informal) head, chief, boss, big cheese (informal), baas (S. African), head honcho (informal) He was appointed 'drugs tsar' by Bill Clinton.

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Translations

car

zar

cár

tsar, keisari

caras

cars

tsar

czar

cár

çar

tsar

[zɑːʳ] N → zar m

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tsar

tzar, czar [ˈzɑː^r] n

(formerly, in Russia) → tsar m

(person in charge of dealing with problem) drug tsar → haut(e) responsable mf de la lutte contre la drogue
AIDS tsar → haut(e) responsable mf de la lutte contre le sida

tsar

n → Zar m

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tsar

[zɑːʳ] n → zar m inv

tsar,

czar,

tzar

(zaː) noun

(the status of) any of the former emperors of Russia. He was crowned tsar; Tsar Nicholas.

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Consider how, after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, hundreds, indeed thousands, of young men and women from the entire Euro-American world flocked to Russia to be part of the Eden of the classless society, with incandescent hatred in their eyes for the dastardly tzarists and the blood-sucking capitalists, and to Spain between 1936 and 1939 to be part of the Civil War that pitted progressive idealism against fascist autocracy.