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Cae⋅sar

  [see-zer]
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–noun
1. Ga⋅ius  [gey-uhs] (or Ca⋅ius) [key-uhs] Julius, c100–44 b.c., Roman general, statesman, and historian.
2. Sid(ney), born 1922, U.S. comedian.
3. a title of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Hadrian, and later of the heirs presumptive.
4. any emperor.
5. a tyrant or dictator.
6. any temporal ruler, in contrast with God; the civil authority. Matt. 22:21.
7. a male given name: from a Roman family name.
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Cultural Dictionary

Caesar

The family name of Julius Caesar and of the next eleven rulers of Rome, who were emperors.

Note: The emperors of Germany and Russia in modern times adapted the word caesar into titles for themselves — kaiser and czar.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

Caesar 
1382; O.E. had casere, which would have yielded modern *coser, but it was replaced in M.E. by keiser, from Norse or Low Ger., and later in M.E. by the Fr. or L. form of the name. Cæsar was used as a title of emperors down to Hadrian (138 C.E.), and also is the root of Ger. Kaiser and Rus. tsar (see czar). He competes as progenitor of words for "king" with Charlemagne (L. Carolus), as in Lithuanian karalius, Polish krol, Hungarian kiraly. In U.S. slang c.1900, a sheriff was Great Seizer. The Caesar salad is named not for the emperor, but for Cesar Cardini, Tijuana, Mexico, restaurant owner, who is said to have served the first one c.1924.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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