Definitions
1.adjective(furniture) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814).
2.adjective(of wine) Produced in a dependency of the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations.
3.nounA political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations (especially one comprising one or more kingdoms) and ruled by a single supreme authority."the Russian empire"
4.nounA political unit ruled by an emperor or empress."The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived client state of Japan governing Vietnam between March 11 and August 23, 1945."
5.nounA group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
6.nounAn expansive and powerful enterprise under the control of one person or group."the McDonald's fast food empire"
7.noun(Absolute) control, dominion, sway.