"ചക്രവർത്തി" എന്ന വാക്കിന്റെ നിഘണ്ടു അർത്ഥം ഇതാണ്:
(നാമം) വലിയ ശക്തിയുടെയും പദവിയുടെയും പരമാധികാരിയായ ഭരണാധികാരി, പ്രത്യേകിച്ച് ഒരു സാമ്രാജ്യം ഭരിക്കുന്ന ഒരാൾ.
"ചക്രവർത്തി" എന്ന പദം. "ഒരു വലിയ പ്രദേശത്തിന്റെയോ സാമ്രാജ്യത്തിന്റെയോ മേൽ ഉയർന്ന പദവിയും അധികാരവും വഹിക്കുന്ന ഒരു രാജാവിനെ വിവരിക്കാൻ സാധാരണയായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു. ചരിത്രപരമായ സന്ദർഭങ്ങളിൽ, ചക്രവർത്തിമാർ പലപ്പോഴും വലിയ സൈനിക ശക്തിയും അധിനിവേശവും, സാംസ്കാരികവും സാമൂഹികവുമായ സ്വാധീനം എന്നിവയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു. പുരാതന റോം, ചൈന, ജപ്പാൻ എന്നിവയുൾപ്പെടെ ലോകത്തിന്റെ വിവിധ ഭാഗങ്ങളിൽ ഭരണാധികാരികൾ ചക്രവർത്തി എന്ന പദവി ഉപയോഗിച്ചുവരുന്നു, കൂടാതെ ഫ്രാൻസ്, ജർമ്മനി തുടങ്ങിയ രാജ്യങ്ങളിലെ സമീപകാലത്തും.
1. He would be a lot more pliable than Philip would ever be, for the son of Charles V, The Holy Roman Emperor, was a man who had been destined to rule and prepared for such a role.
2. It is situated in the bay of Yeddo, and at but a short distance from that second capital of the Japanese Empire, and the residence of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor, before the Mikado, the spiritual Emperor, absorbed his office in his own.
3. Derik always gives off a daunting aura, like that of an emperor whose every word is law.
4. Here he finds, among other odd things, that the people enjoy extreme happiness that they have no law that they die without pain that they are from ten to thirty feet in height that they live five thousand years that they have an emperor called Irdonozur and that they can jump sixty feet high, when, being out of the gravitating influence, they fly about with fans.
5. Hereafter a very notorious Roman Emperor will institute this worship in Rome, and thence derive a cognomen, Heliogabalus.
6. Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the might of his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he found in these pleasant fancies, he set himself forthwith to put his scheme into execution.
7. There is another thing, too, that is wanting for supposing we find a king who is at war and has a beautiful daughter, and that I have won incredible fame throughout the universe, I know not how it can be made out that I am of royal lineage, or even second cousin to an emperor for the king will not be willing to give me his daughter in marriage unless he is first thoroughly satisfied on this point, however much my famous deeds may deserve it so that by this deficiency I fear I shall lose what my arm has fairly earned.
8. All this Sancho listened to and fixed it well in his memory, and thanked them heartily for intending to recommend his master to be an emperor instead of an archbishop, for he felt sure that in the way of bestowing rewards on their squires emperors could do more than archbishops-errant.
9. They went to meet him, and in answer to their inquiries about Don Quixote, he told them how he had found him stripped to his shirt, lank, yellow, half dead with hunger, and sighing for his lady Dulcinea and although he had told him that she commanded him to quit that place and come to El Toboso, where she was expecting him, he had answered that he was determined not to appear in the presence of her beauty until he had done deeds to make him worthy of her favour and if this went on, Sancho said, he ran the risk of not becoming an emperor as in duty bound, or even an archbishop, which was the least he could be for which reason they ought to consider what was to be done to get him away from there.