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tsar (tsär, zär)

noun

czar (sense )

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tsar Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • overthrow: Obviously the demand to overthrow the tsar was now obsolete.

Adjective modifier

  • Russian: Her northern regions fell easy prey to the expansive missions of the invading Russian tsars in 1715 under Peter the Great.

Modifies a noun

  • bell: We enjoy a guided walk where we'll see numerous governmental buildings, gold-domed cathedrals and the tsar bell.

Noun used with modifier

  • drug: The appointment of Britain's first drugs tsar four years ago raised hopes of a radical policy shift.

Possessives

  • court: There was a time when Russian aristocrats at the tsar's court and in high society also made a fad of the French language.

Possessives

  • man: Monday, 07 February 2005 Do we need a men's health tsar?
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   A spectre is haunting Europeöthe spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holyalliance to exorcise this spectre; Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich

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