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An empress is a female imperial monarch, or the wife of an imperial monarch; written with a capital, Empress is used as the title of an empress, placed before her name – often just the given name.
Empress or The Empress may also refer to:
Monarchy
edit- Empress regnant, a female monarch of an empire
- Empress consort, the wife of a reigning emperor
- Empress dowager, the widow of an emperor
- Empress mother, an empress dowager who is the mother of a reigning monarch
- Empress of Japan, empress consort to the current reigning emperor
Arts and entertainment
edit- Beatmania IIDX 16: Empress, the 16th game in the beatmania IIDX series of music video games
- The Empress, a fictional pirate ship from the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- The Empress, a character in the Adventure Time miniseries Stakes
- Empress (album), an album by Yemi Alade
- Empress (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves as a rook or a knight
- Empress (comic book), an Icon Comics/Dark Horse Comics limited series
- Empress (character), a superheroine in the DC Comics universe
- Empress (novel), a 2003 novel by Shan Sa
- The Empress (play), a 2013 play by Tanika Gupta
- The Empress (Tarot card), a trump card from the tarot deck
- The Empress (TV series), a 2022 historical drama series on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
- Empress of Blandings, a fictional pig in the Blandings Castle novels and stories by P. G. Wodehouse
- Empress of Mijak (or simply Empress), a 2007 novel by Karen Miller
Biology
edit- A number of brush-footed butterflies in the subfamily Apaturinae:
- Empress, Sasakia funebris, in the Sasakia genus
- Empress Antonia, Asterocampa celtis antonia, a subspecies of Asterocampa celtis
- Empress Leilia, Asterocampa leilia, a species in the genus Asterocampa
- Empress Flora, Asterocampa clyton flora, a subspecies of Asterocampa clyton
- Empress Louisa, A. c. louisa, a subspecies of Asterocampa clyton
- Painted empress, Apaturopsis cleochares
- EMPReSS, a database of standardized phenotyping protocols used by the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium
- Empress brilliant (Heliodoxa imperatrix), a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae
- Empress cicada (Megapomponia imperatoria), a species of cicada from Southeast Asia
- Empress tree (Paulownia tomentosa), a deciduous tree native to central and western China
Places
edit- Empress, Alberta, a village, Canada
- Empress, Georgia, an unincorporated community, United States
- The Empress (hotel), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Ships
edit- American Empress (formerly Empress of the North), a stern-wheel cruise ship in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
- HMS Empress, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
- MS Empress, a cruise ship operated by Pullmantur Cruises, formerly named Nordic Empress and Empress of the Seas
- MS Empress of Australia, a Bass Strait ferry
- RMS Empress of Asia, an ocean liner built in 1912–1913 in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships
- RMS Empress of Australia (1919), an ocean liner built in 1913–1919 in Germany for the Hamburg America Line
- RMS Empress of Britain, a list of Canadian Pacific Steamship Company ocean liners
- RMS Empress of Canada, a list of ships of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
- RMS Empress of China (1890), ocean liner built in 1890–1891 in Barrow, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships
- RMS Empress of Ireland, an English ocean liner, sank in 1914 in the Saint Lawrence River, Canada
- USS Empress (SP-569), a United States Navy passenger barge in service briefly during 1917
Other uses
edit- Canadian Pacific 2816, also nicknamed "Empress"
- Empress (cracker), video game cracker
- Empress (provincial electoral district), Alberta, Canada
- Empress Embedded Database, a commercial relational database software
- A former call sign for Canadian North airline
- A call sign for Canadian Pacific Air Lines
See also
edit- La Emperatriz, an album by Rigoberta Bandini
- Empress Springs, a place in Western Australia
- Empress Theatre (disambiguation)