kaiser
/ˈkaɪzɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.54 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of Kaiser.
noun
An emperor of a German-speaking country, particularly the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), the Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary (1806–1918), or the German Empire (1871–1918) — often specifically Wilhelm II.
noun
A Kaiser roll: a round, pinwheel-shaped roll.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "And Black Ivo is a veritable Kaiser."
- "[…] that President Poincare, the first servant of France, is still Louis XIV, the former War-Lord, the Kaiser of France […]"
- "Senator Sherman vigorously assailed the Shantung agreement, declaring that it would make the Mikado a veritable Kaiser of the Far East and alienate the sympathies of the 400,000,000 Chinese – from the people of the United States."
- "[…] which, from the banking point of view, the National City Bank is a veritable kaiser."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English kayser, from Old High German keisar (“emperor”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaisar, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. The native Old English descendant of that Proto-Germanic word was cāser (“emperor”), but the shape of Middle English kayser (“emperor”) (versus the expected *caser, *coser) suggests it was borrowed from another Germanic language rather than inherited, and the modern English spelling and sense seem to be modified after modern German rather than a direct continuation of Middle English. Compare tsar, which was borrowed from Slavic. Doublet of Caesar and tsar.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkaɪzɚ/
- British English: /ˈkaɪzə(ɹ)/