KAISER

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• KAISER (noun)
  The noun KAISER has 1 sense:

1. the title of the Holy Roman Emperors or the emperors of Austria or of Germany until 1918

  Familiarity information: KAISER used as a noun is very rare.

• KAISER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The title of the Holy Roman Emperors or the emperors of Austria or of Germany until 1918

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Kaiser" is a kind of...):

emperor (the male ruler of an empire)

Instance hyponyms:

Kaiser Bill; Kaiser Wilhelm; Wilhelm II (grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918; he was vilified as causing World War I (1859-1941))

 Context examples 

A remarkable man this Von Bork—a man who could hardly be matched among all the devoted agents of the Kaiser.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, they say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where all his money comes from.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)