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Added 9 October 2026

czar

/zɑː(ɹ)/ noun

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Alternative spelling of tsar
An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
drug czar

Origin

See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from the book Notes on Muscovite Affairs (1549) by Sigismund von Herberstein. It was supplanted by the alternative tsar in the 19th century.

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