Adjectives that collocate with EMPIRE (Sorted by collocation rank)
roman (90), lost (72), American (70), media (63), business (63), great (62), colonial (54), vast (51), powerful (49), largest (48), mighty (48), eastern (47), financial (46), human (45), little (42), large (41), Muslim (41), overseas (39), only (36), huge (35), big (34), industrial (34), commercial (33).