Inherited fromMiddle Englishkayser, fromOld High Germankeisar(“emperor”), fromProto-West Germanic*kaisar, fromProto-Germanic*kaisaraz. The native Old English descendant of that Proto-Germanic word wascāser(“emperor”), but the shape of Middle Englishkayser(“emperor”) (versus the expected*caser,*coser) suggests it was borrowed from another Germanic language rather than inherited, and the modern English spelling and sense seem to be modified after modern German rather than a direct continuation of Middle English.[1][2][3][4] Comparetsar, which was borrowed from Slavic.
(by extension) Anyemperor orautocrat, or one who attempts to be one.
1915,T. P.'s Weekly - Volume 26, page444:
And Black Ivo is a veritableKaiser.
1916,The Provocation of France, page147:
[…] that President Poincare, the first servant of France, is still Louis XIV, the former War-Lord, theKaiser of France[…]
1919,Far Eastern Political Science Review - Volume 1, page49:
Senator Sherman vigorously assailed the Shantung agreement, declaring that it would make the Mikado a veritableKaiser of the Far East and alienate the sympathies of the 400,000,000 Chinese – from the people of the United States.
1929,Through the Leaves, page489:
[…] which, from the banking point of view, the National City Bank is a veritablekaiser.
According to the 2010 United States Census,Kaiser is the 1,039th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 33,480 individuals.Kaiser is most common among White (93.15%) individuals.
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2024 February 27, Gerald Fricke, “Der Beckenbavatar”, intaz[1]:
In Mexiko kam der virtuelle Beckenbauer aber noch nicht zum Einsatz, wegen der dünnen Luft („Montezumas Rache“). Und aus Datenschutzgründen nicht bei der Heim-EM 1988 in Deutschland. Einen ersten unbemerkten Kurzzeiteinsatz desKaisers als Hologramm gab es bei der WM 1990, im Spiel der Deutschen gegen die Tschechoslowakei (1:0).
Kaiser on the German Wikipedia.Wikipediade