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soveraign

soveraign is the obsolete form of sovereign.

Meaning of sovereign

Noun

sovereign (plural sovereigns)

  1. A monarch: a supreme ruler of a country in a monarchical system.
    • The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det
      To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt,
      Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    monarch
  2. One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
  3. A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
  4. A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
  5. A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles.
  6. Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, eg., ursula, viceroy.

See all 17 meanings of sovereign

Forms of soveraign

pluralsoveraigns

Questions about soveraign

What is soveraign the obsolete form of?
Soveraign is the obsolete form of sovereign.

Words near soveraign in the dictionary

  1. SovCit
  2. SovCits
  3. sovenance
  4. sovenaunce
  5. sovenaunces
  6. soveraign
  7. soveraigne
  8. soveraigns
  9. soveraigntie
  10. sovereign
  11. sovereign bond

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