Imperial vs Sovereign - What's the difference?
imperial | sovereign | Related terms |
Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.
* Shakespeare
Relating to the British imperial system of measurement.
Very grand or fine.
Of special, superior, or unusual size or excellence.
A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
(paper, printing) A printing-paper size measuring 30 inches x 22 inches.
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 adjectives the difference between imperial and sovereign
is that imperial is related to an empire, emperor, or empress while sovereign is exercising power of rule.As nouns the difference between imperial and sovereign
is that imperial is a bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle while sovereign is a monarch; the ruler of a country.As a proper noun Imperial
is a city in California.imperial
English
(wikipedia imperial)Adjective
(en adjective)- the imperial diadem of Rome
Synonyms
* imperial system * (humorous) old moneyDerived terms
* Imperial City * imperially * imperial prince * imperial princess * imperialism * imperialist * imperiality * imperialitiesNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
A Champagne or Burgundy wine bottle with this volume would be called a Methuselah. ----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.
