You can refer to a group of companies controlled by one person as an empire. the big Mondadori publishing empire. Austro Hungarian Empire Second Empire Baroque Second Empire style British empire Byzantine Empire Empire State Building Empire style Ghana empire Holy Roman Empire Majapahit empire Mali empire Mauryan empire Ottoman Empire Oyo empire Roman Republic and Empire Second Empire Songhai empire Songhay empire Srivijaya empire
A design style inspired by the Napoleonic Empire, it includes heavy looking designs, classical design elements and combines straight lines and curves, as in sleigh beds
an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple a group of countries under a single authority; "the British empire"
Refers to a style of interior decoration popular in the eighteenth century under Napoleon Bonaparte It is most associated with France although it did cross to America and influenced England's own Regency style It is grand and theatrical with a military influence drawn from Napoleon's many military campaigns Its characteristics include the lavish use of fabric from drapes at the window to whole tented rooms, day beds and chaise longues and motifs such as arrows, swans and bees - Napoleon's emblem
The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire