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sovereignhood

sovereignhood noun: the state or condition of a sovereign; sovereignty.

Noun

sovereignhood (countable and uncountable, plural sovereignhoods)

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of a sovereign; sovereignty.
    • It meant politics, political personhood, republic, sovereignhood and power.2017, Ranabir Samaddar, Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age, page 41
  2. (countable) An independent or sovereign territory.
    • The people of the area were divided into the overlapping sovereignhood, and the British changed that when they arrived and when they left.2021, Aparna Pande, Routledge Handbook on South Asian Foreign Policy

Forms of sovereignhood

pluralsovereignhoods

Origin of sovereignhood

From sovereign + -hood.

Questions about sovereignhood

What does sovereignhood mean?
Sovereignhood means the state or condition of a sovereign; sovereignty.
What part of speech is sovereignhood?
Sovereignhood is a noun.
What is the plural of sovereignhood?
The plural of sovereignhood is sovereignhoods.

Words near sovereignhood in the dictionary

  1. sovereigndom
  2. sovereigned
  3. sovereigness
  4. sovereignesses
  5. sovereignest
  6. sovereignhood
  7. sovereigning
  8. sovereignism
  9. sovereignist
  10. sovereignists
  11. sovereignize

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