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kaiser

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈkaɪzə(ɹ)/ (UK)
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/ˈkaɪzə(ɹ)/ (UK) · /ˈkaɪzɚ/ (US)

Definition of kaiser

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Kaiser.
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noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Kaiser.
  2. An emperor of a German-speaking country, particularly the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), the Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary (1806–1918), or the German Empire (1871–1918) — often specifically Wilhelm II.
  3. (broadly)Any emperor or autocrat, or one who attempts to be one.
    “And Black Ivo is a veritable Kaiser.”
    “[…] that President Poincare, the first servant of France, is still Louis XIV, the former War-Lord, the Kaiser of France […]”
    “Senator Sherman vigorously assailed the Shantung agreement, declaring that it would make the Mikado a veritable Kaiser of the Far East and alienate the sympathies of the 400,000,000 Chinese – from the people of the United States.”
    “[…] which, from the banking point of view, the National City Bank is a veritable kaiser.”
  4. A Kaiser roll: a round, pinwheel-shaped roll.

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English kayser, from Old High German keisar (“emperor”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz. The native Old English descendant of that Proto-Germanic word was cāser (“emperor”),…

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Inherited from Middle English kayser, from Old High German keisar (“emperor”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz. The native Old English descendant of that Proto-Germanic word was cāser (“emperor”), but the shape of Middle English kayser (“emperor”) (versus the expected *caser, *coser) suggests it was borrowed from another Germanic language rather than inherited, and the modern English spelling and sense seem to be modified after modern German rather than a direct continuation of Middle English. Compare tsar, which was borrowed from Slavic. Doublet of Caesar and tsar.

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