City vs Sovereign - What's the difference?
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A large settlement, bigger than a town.
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, title= (lb) The central business district; downtown.
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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.
As a proper noun city
is (uk) a popular shortened form of the city of london, the historic core of london where the roman settlement of londinium was established.As an adjective sovereign is
exercising power of rule.As a noun sovereign is
a monarch; the ruler of a country.city
English
(wikipedia city)Alternative forms
* cyteNoun
(cities)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city ’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the above definition of "city") * citify * citizen * city banker * city block * city boy * city center * city centre * city clerk * city desk * city district * city father * city girl * city hall * city limit * city line * city man * city manager * city planning * city room * city slicker * city-state * cityscape * citywide * (l) * holy city * inner city/inner-city * sister city * the city * twin city (city)See also
* metropolis * megalopolis * megacityStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----sovereign
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.