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Spell Bee Word: Empress


What does empress mean?

Word: Empress

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Empress means a woman who rules an empire, or the wife of a man who rules one.

How do you spell empress?

Syllables: em - press

Tricky part: Do not slip extra letters in after the m: it is simply em, then press, ending in a double s.

Watch out for: emperess, empres

Memory tip: Two silver swans glide behind every empress: the word ends with two s's, one for each swan.

Empress in a sentence

Example 1: The empress sat on a golden throne.

Example 2: The empress waved to the crowd from the palace balcony.

Example 3: In the play, Riya was the empress and I was her guard.

Fun Fact

Queen Victoria of Britain took the title Empress of India in 1876, though she never visited the country.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the masculine form of the word: empress

a) monarch
b) duke
c) king
d) emperor

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d) emperor. A king rules a kingdom, but the man who rules an empire is an emperor.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) empress
b) waitriss
c) actres
d) lionness

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a) empress. Empress has its double s; actress needs ss, lioness has one n and waitress ends in ess.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

sprmees

a) empress
b) impress
c) express
d) pressure

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a) empress. There is no i, x or u among the letters, which leaves empress.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The empress wore a golden crown studded with shining jewells.

a) empress
b) crown
c) jewells
d) golden

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c) jewells. In British English jewel keeps one l when it becomes jewels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these women was an empress?

a) Marie Curie
b) Nur Jahan
c) Florence Nightingale
d) Amelia Earhart

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b) Nur Jahan

2. What title would an empress's daughter usually have?

a) princess
b) governess
c) duchess
d) countess

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a) princess

Associated Words

Words that end in -ress: headmistress, distress, heiress, progress, tigress, huntress

More words from this list

haddock, maid, petticoat, response, surf, wheelchair, baggage, critical

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