Antonyms for empire
ˈɛm paɪər; for 8–10 also ɒmˈpɪərem·pire

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.8 / 24 votes

1. empire

   Antonyms:
   anarchy, confusion, disintegration, disorder, insubordination, insurrection, lawlessness, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, sedition, tumult

   Synonyms:
   authority, command, control, domination, dominion, government, law, loyalty, obedience, order, rule, sovereignty, submission, supremacy

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. empire

   Antonyms:
   independence, insurrection, anarchy

   Synonyms:
   dominion, sovereignty, rule, sway, kingdom, realm

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1. • Corporation
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   • Government
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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.3 / 3 votes

1. empire, imperiumnoun

   the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised

   Synonyms:
   imperium, conglomerate

2. empirenoun

   a group of countries under a single authority

   "the British created a great empire"

   Synonyms:
   imperium, conglomerate

3. empirenoun

   a monarchy with an emperor as head of state

   Synonyms:
   imperium, conglomerate

4. conglomerate, empirenoun

   a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization

   Synonyms:
   imperium, conglomerate, pudding stone

5. Empirenoun

   an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple

   Synonyms:
   imperium, conglomerate

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1. empirenoun

   Synonyms:
   sovereignty, sway, dominion, supremacy, realm, domain, kingdom

How to use empire in a sentence?

1. Van Voorst:

   Paul's attitude toward slavery is much more an attitude of reform rather than revolt, he doesn't want a social revolution against the Roman Empire. But what he does say tends to be very strong toward reform of the system, and it is going to eventually end it.

2. Fred Berglund:

   They could build their own empire.

3. Voltaire:

   This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

4. Daniel Silver:

   The tone of the Empire State survey suggests that we are moving past the recent weakness in the manufacturing sector.

5. June Jordan:

   All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

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