how to pronounce empress

/ˈɛmpɹɛs/

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empress is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of empress in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… this photo of the empress of japan taken …”

meanings of empress

noun:

The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa.
A female chimpanzee.
The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.

verb:

Rare form of impress.

name:

A village in Alberta, Canada.

empress frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word empress occurs in english on average 1.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics empress can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that empress can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;