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Caesar

Pronunciation: /ˈsiːzə/

Definition of Caesar

noun

1a title of Roman emperors, especially those from Augustus to Hadrian.
an autocrat: they complained that he was behaving like a Caesar

2 Medicine, British informal a caesarean section.

Phrases

Caesar's wife: a person who is required to be above suspicion.
[with reference to Plutarch's Caesar ( x. 6) ‘I thought my wife ought not even to be under suspicion’]