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império

Portuguese, noun

império is spelled I-M-P-É-R-I-O (7 letters) and appears 25 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,464th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Império is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “State ruled by an emperor or empress” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, imperio is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estado governado por um imperador ou uma imperatriz”.

What does império mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineState ruled by an emperor or empress

  2. 2

    masculinetime of rule of an emperor or empress

  3. 3

    masculinepolitical unit that covers a vast territorial extension and that integrates people with different cultures under a single power, regardless of the form of government

  4. 4

    masculineA type of small wooden chapel, where the insignia of the Holy Spirit are displayed and where part of the Festas do Espirito Santo take place

  5. 5

    masculineset of festivals dedicated to the Holy Spirit

  6. 6

    masculinepredominance; absolute domination

  7. 7

    masculinepower

  8. 8

    masculinearrogance

noun

as imperio
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of império

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. estado governado por um imperador ou uma imperatriz 2. grande empresa econômica , com um único proprietário

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of império

  • imperios plural
  • impérios plural
  • imperio alternative
  • emperio alternative archaic
  • empério alternative archaic

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to império

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is império in Portuguese?

império appears 25 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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