empire
French, noun
empire is spelled E-M-P-I-R-E (6 letters) and appears 54 times per million words in written French, the 1,564th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Empire is a French masculine noun meaning “empire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of empirer. With an accent, empiré is a different word: “past participle of empirer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Groupe d’États qui sont dirigés par un État qui les domine”.
What does empire mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineempire
- 2
masculineinfluence, authority, dominion
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of empirer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Groupe d’États qui sont dirigés par un État qui les domine. 2. Autorité politique dominant symboliquement, politiquement et/ou militairement plusieurs États ou nations. 3. Autorité absolue. 4. Ascendant, influence dominante.
adjective: 1. De la couleur vert sombre et soutenu. #00561B 2. De la période du premier Empire en France.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of empire
- empires plural
- empirée feminine
- empirés masculine plural
- empirées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to empire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is empire in French?
empire appears 54 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).