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tsar (tsär, zär)
noun
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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.
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