Chairman vs Sovereign - What's the difference?
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A person (implied male) presiding over a meeting.
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
(historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 618:
* 1836 , Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers ?
Exercising power of rule.
Exceptional in quality.
Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.v:
* (rfdate) Dryden
* (rfdate) South
Having supreme, ultimate power.
Princely; royal.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
* (rfdate) Hooker
A monarch; the ruler of a country.
* Jefferson
One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33? standard bottles.
Any butterfly of the tribe , as the (ursula) and the viceroy.
Chairman is a related term of sovereign.
As nouns the difference between chairman and sovereign
is that chairman is a person (implied male) presiding over a meeting while sovereign is a monarch; the ruler of a country.As an adjective sovereign is
exercising power of rule.chairman
English
(wikipedia chairman)Noun
(chairmen)- Mr Western entered; but not before a small wrangling bout had passed between him and his chairmen ; for the fellows, who had taken up their burden at the Hercules Pillars, had conceived no hopes of having any future good customer in the squire [...]
- Mr. Winkle, catching sight of a lady's face at the window of the sedan, turned hastily round, plied the knocker with all his might and main, and called frantically upon the chairman to take the chair away again.
Usage notes
Historically meant a man, now also used for women.Antonyms
* chairwomanHypernyms
* chair, chairperson * presiding officer, presiderAnagrams
* English nouns with irregular pluralssovereign
English
(wikipedia sovereign)Adjective
(en adjective)- sovereign nation
- The soueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine / She pownded small, and did in peeces bruze, / And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, / Into his wound the iuyce thereof did scruze
- a sovereign remedy
- Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.
- most sovereign name
- We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.
Derived terms
* sovereignlySynonyms
* autonomous * supremeNoun
(en noun)- No question is to be made but that the bed of the Mississippi belongs to the sovereign , that is, to the nation.
