"empress dowager" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: empress dowagers [plural], empresses dowager [plural], empresses dowagers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|+|empresses dowager|empresses dowagers}} empress dowager (plural empress dowagers or empresses dowager or empresses dowagers)
  1. The mother or widow of an emperor, especially in a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese empire. Wikipedia link: Empress Dowager Cixi, empress dowager Categories (topical): Female, Monarchy Translations (mother of an emperor): إِمْبِرَاطُورَة الأُمّ (alt: ʔimbirāṭūra(t) al-ʔumm) [feminine] (Arabic), emperadriu vídua (Catalan), 皇太后 (huángtàihòu) (Chinese Mandarin), 太后 (tàihòu) (Chinese Mandarin), leskikeisarinna (Finnish), impératrice douairière [feminine] (French), Kaiserinmutter [feminine] (German), janda permaisuri (Indonesian), imperatrice vedova [feminine] (Italian), 皇太后 (kōtaigō) (alt: こうたいごう) (Japanese), 太后 (taikō) (alt: たいこう) (Japanese), 母后 (alt: ぼこう, bokō, ははきさき, hahakisaki) (Japanese), 황태후 (hwangtaehu) (alt: 皇太后) (Korean), 태후 (taehu) (alt: 太后) (Korean), 모후 (mohu) (alt: 母后) (Korean), cesarzowa wdowa [feminine] (Polish), вдо́вствующая императри́ца (vdóvstvujuščaja imperatríca) [feminine] (Russian), emperatriz viuda [feminine] (Spanish), änkedrottning [common-gender] (Swedish), drottningmoder [common-gender] (Swedish), ฮองไทเฮา (Thai), hoàng thái hậu (Vietnamese), thái hậu (Vietnamese)

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