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Definition of imperial adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

imperial

adjective

NAmE//ɪmˈpɪriəl//

[only before noun]

1connected with an empire the imperial family/palace/army imperial power/expansion

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2connected with the system for measuring length, weight, and volume using pounds, inches, etc. compare metric

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