Empire
Em´pire
EMPIRE. This word signifies, first, authority or command; it is the power to
command or govern those actions of men which would otherwise be free;
secondly, the country under the government of an emperor but sometimes it is
used to designate a country subject to kingly power, as the British empire.
Wolff, Inst. Sec. 833.
administration,
ally,
archduchy,
archdukedom,
authority,
body politic,
buffer state,
caliphate,
captive nation,
chieftaincy,
chieftainry,
city-state,
civil government,
claws,
clutches,
colony,
command,
commonweal,
commonwealth,
control,
country,
county,
czardom,
direction,
discipline,
dispensation,
disposition,
domain,
dominion,
duchy,
dukedom,
earldom,
emperorship,
empery,
form of government,
free city,
governance,
government,
grand duchy,
grip,
hand,
hands,
imperialism,
iron hand,
jurisdiction,
kaiserdom,
kinghood,
kingship,
land,
majesty,
management,
mandant,
mandate,
mandated territory,
mandatee,
mandatory,
nation,
nationality,
oversight,
polis,
political organization,
polity,
possession,
power,
principality,
principate,
protectorate,
province,
puppet government,
puppet regime,
queenhood,
queenship,
raj,
rajaship,
realm,
regime,
regimen,
regnancy,
regulation,
reign,
republic,
royalty,
rule,
satellite,
seneschalty,
settlement,
sovereign nation,
sovereignty,
state,
sultanate,
sultanship,
superpower,
supervision,
sway,
system of government,
talons,
territory,
the crown,
the throne,
toparchia,
toparchy