Sovereign vs Citizen - What's the difference?
sovereign | citizen |
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.
A person who is legally recognized as a member of a state, with associated rights and obligations.
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(dated) A member of a state that is not a monarchy; used in contrast with subject .
A person who is a legally recognized resident of a city or town.
* George Eliot
A resident of any particular place to which the subject feels he/she belongs.
* 2007', John English, '''''Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
A civilian, as opposed to a soldier, police officer etc.
As nouns the difference between sovereign and citizen
is that sovereign is a monarch; the ruler of a country while citizen is a person who is legally recognized as a member of a state, with associated rights and obligations.As an adjective sovereign
is exercising power of rule.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.
Hyponyms
* (monarch) king, queenDerived terms
* sovereigntySee also
* half sovereign/half-sovereign English words not following the I before E except after C rulecitizen
English
(wikipedia citizen)Noun
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- When the rebellion broke out, the United States promptly evacuated its citizens from the area.
- That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs.