sceptre

Speech parts

1. sceptre - Noun

2. sceptre - Verb

3. Sceptre - Proper noun

Meaning

A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace.

Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter.

To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wand rod scepter staff verge baton coronet majesty mace club crosier command reign bar pole
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Antonyms

lack ban disadvantage breach prohibition veto
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Hypernyms

staff reign sovereignty

Hyponyms

bauble

Phrases with the word

royal sceptre

Derivatives

sceptered sceptred sceptering sceptring

Anagrams

respect scepter specter spectre

Examples

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier. Edith Evans

Night, sable goddess from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Edward Young

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one. Napoleon Bonaparte

Age is no more near than youth To the sceptre and the crown. Vain the wisdom, vain the truth; Do not lay thy rapture down. George William Russell

And he wore a kingly crown; And in his grasp a sceptre shone; On his brow this mark I saw - 'I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW! Percy Bysshe Shelley

To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me. Lewis Carroll

Close letter words and terms

scepticize sceptick sceptral sceptred sceptred isle sceptredom