czar
Meaning
- Alternative spelling of tsar (especially common in American English)
- (informal) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/zɑː(ɹ)/
Etymology
See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from Sigismund von Herberstein's Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii ("Notes on Muscovite Affairs") of 1549. The alternative tsar began to replace it in the 19th century.
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