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tsar Definition

tsar (tsär, zär)

noun

czar (sense )

tsar Related Forms
tsar·dom noun tsar·ism′ noun tsar·ist adjective, noun
tsar Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • overthrow: Obviously the demand to overthrow the tsar was now obsolete.
  • become: Alexandra was a very protective mother, but she was also determined to see that her son became tsar.
  • have: Misha tells us that many believe that Lenin had the tsar 's head cut off and kept in a jar in his study.
  • see: He had seen one tsar murdered and he was determined that he would not be next.
  • assassinate: Trotsky was writing against a background where brave leftists attempted to assassinate tsars, their ministers and aristocratic accomplices.

Adjective modifier

  • Russian: Her northern regions fell easy prey to the expansive missions of the invading Russian tsars in 1715 under Peter the Great.
  • former: The Hermitage houses all the vast treasures of the former tsars.
  • last: NOTES: He is a first cousin once removed of the last tsar, Nicholas II.
  • new: Published: 09 February 2006 The new school sports tsar, Kelly Holmes, wants to push children to get active.
  • own: The Government's own drugs tsar was against it.
  • primary: Top of the page Pharmacy 'lacking leadership' The pharmacy profession is lacking national leadership, according to the Government's primary care tsar.

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.
  • poverty: Childrenâs charities and campaign groups have welcomed the appointment of a child poverty tsar following the governmentâs failure to meet its own poverty targets.
  • health: Monday, 07 February 2005 Do we need a men's health tsar?
  • design: A long way behind this pair was London Mayor Ken Livingstone's design tsar, Richard Rogers.
  • child: The first holder of the post is consultant pediatrician Professor Al Aynsley Green, the government's former child health tsar.
  • care: Top of the page Pharmacy 'lacking leadership' The pharmacy profession is lacking national leadership, according to the Government's primary care tsar.

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?
tsar Quotes

   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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