Other forms: tsars
A tsar was the emperor of Russia. The last tsar, under the tsar, the tsar's court.
The title comes from Caesar, as the German Kaiser does, which is how far one Roman name travelled. It is now used of officials with sweeping powers over one problem, as in a drugs tsar, and czar is the other spelling.
1nountsarThe former emperor of Russia.
“The last tsar and his family were killed in 1918.”
tsar is a ruler.
Also accepted in games: czar
Russian tsar comes through Slavic from Latin Caesar; Kaiser has the same source.
Russian
царь
English, today
tsar
Borrowed from Russian царь. Borrowed from Russian царь, from orv цьсарь, from Proto-Slavic cěsařь, from a gem language, from Proto-Germanic kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. a doublet of Caesar and Kaiser. The spelling tsar began to replace the older czar in the nineteenth century. Compare Medieval Greek Τζαῖσαρ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA