empire

n 1: the domain ruled by an emperor or empress

2: a group of countries under a single authority: "the Roman

empire"

3: a monarchy with an emperor as head of state

4: a group of companies run as a single organization [syn: {conglomerate}]

5: somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a

cooking apple [syn: {Empire}]

empire

Any of a family of military simulations derived from a

game written by Peter Langston many years ago. Five or six

multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication

exist, and one single-player version implemented for both

{Unix} and {VMS}; the latter is even available as {MS-DOS}

{freeware}. All are notoriously addictive.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-08-06)