Sovereign - English meaning

adjective

Not qualified or diminished in any way; total.

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Absolute secrecy

noun

A value or principle which is regarded as universally valid or which may be viewed without relation to other things.

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Good and evil are presented as absolutes

adjective

Unlimited or immense.

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Enthusiasts who devote boundless energy to their hobby

adjective

Seemingly endless or unlimited

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Boundless energy

noun

A leader or ruler of a people or clan.

Usage examples:

The chief of the village

adjective

Most important.

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The chief reason for the spending cuts

adjective

Most important

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Their chief objection to the appointment was that she had no judicial experience., the chief econom…

noun

A circular ornamental headdress worn by a monarch as a symbol of authority, usually made of or decorated with precious metals and jewels.

Usage examples:

Room after room of the armoury reveals incredible riches, including the imperial crown, mace and sc…

verb

Ceremonially place a crown on the head of (someone) in order to invest them as a monarch.

Usage examples:

He went to rome to be crowned

noun

A circular decoration for the head, usually made of gold and jewels, worn by a king or queen at official ceremonies

Usage examples:

They won six nba crowns in seven years., her hair stuck straight up from her crown., a gold crown, …

adjective

Having power and influence over others.

Usage examples:

They are now in an even more dominant position in the market

noun

A dominant trait or gene.

Usage examples:

This disorder is inherited as a dominant

adjective

More important, strong, or noticeable than anything else of the same type

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A dominant personality, for years the democrats were the dominant party in congress., military domi…

noun

A member of a powerful family, especially a hereditary ruler.

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In qatar, saudi arabia, morocco, or oman, the nation-state evolves in a political environment shape…

noun

One of a series of rulers or leaders who are all from the same family

Usage examples:

The temples were founded by foreign dynasts.

adjective

Successful in producing a desired or intended result.

Usage examples:

Effective solutions to environmental problems

noun

A soldier fit and available for service.

Usage examples:

When the battles broke out, he had a total of 920 effectives

adjective

Producing the intended results, or (of a person) skilled or able to do something well

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An effective policy/strategy, we’ve found that giving away samples of our product is the most effec…

adjective

(of something inanimate or abstract) successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective.

Usage examples:

Tobacco smoke is the most effectual protection against the midge

adjective

Successful in producing the intended results

Usage examples:

Unfortunately, efforts to stop the fighting have not been effectual.

adjective

(of something inanimate or abstract) successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective.

Usage examples:

This treatment was efficacious in some cases

adjective

Able to produce the intended result

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We believe that educational or counselling schemes are a more efficacious way of dealing with this …

adjective

(of a system or machine) achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.

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More efficient processing of information

adjective

Working or operating in a way that gets the results you want without any waste

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An efficient organization, they are developing a more fuel-efficient car to save gas., she manages …

adjective

Using resources such as time, materials, or energy well without wasting any

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An efficient method/use/way, the car combines an efficient 2.3-liter four-cylinder gas engine with …

noun

A person who has the right to vote in an election, especially one for members of a national parliament.

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Close to 60 per cent of the 60,000 registered electors voted

noun

A person who votes

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In this election many 18-year-olds will become electors for the first time., the us president is of…

noun

A sovereign ruler of an empire.

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He became emperor in 1930

noun

A male ruler of an empire

noun

A woman who is a sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire.

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Queen victoria was proclaimed empress at delhi in 1877

noun

A female ruler of an empire, or the wife of a male ruler of an empire

adjective

Extremely good; outstanding.

Usage examples:

The lorry was in excellent condition

exclamation

Used to indicate approval or pleasure.

Usage examples:

‘what a lovely idea! excellent!’

adjective

Extremely good

Usage examples:

The car is in excellent condition., the school is known for its excellence.

adjective

Containing or holding as much or as many as possible; having no empty space.

Usage examples:

Waste bins full of rubbish

adverb

Straight; directly.

Usage examples:

She turned her head and looked full into his face

noun

The period, point, or state of the greatest fullness or strength.

Usage examples:

So many of those who were killed in the attacks were right in the full of their lives.

adjective

Giving or ready to give help.

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People are friendly and helpful

adjective

Giving help

Usage examples:

He made several helpful suggestions.

adjective

Limitless or endless in space, extent, or size; impossible to measure or calculate.

Usage examples:

The infinite mercy of god

noun

Another term for non-finite.

adjective

Without limits; extremely large or great

Usage examples:

Infinite space, there seemed to be an infinite number of paint colors to choose from.

noun

One's family and relations.

Usage examples:

Many elderly people have no kin to turn to for assistance

adjective

(of a person) related.

Usage examples:

He was kin to the brothers

suffix

Forming diminutive nouns such as bumpkin, catkin.

noun

The male ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.

Usage examples:

King henry viii

verb

Make (someone) king.

Usage examples:

For history lovers, richard the second was dethroned by bolingbroke, who was kinged henry the fourth.

noun

The british national anthem.

noun

The person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country.

Usage examples:

The leader of a protest group

noun

A person who manages or controls other people, esp. because of his or her ability or position

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A business/financial/political leader, her company is a leader in the women’s clothing industry.

noun

A company, product, etc. that has higher sales than its competitors

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The brand is market leader in france, where it has a 49% market share., union leaders said they exp…

noun

A sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor.

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The reigning monarch

noun

A nation’s king or queen

adjective

Exceptionally good.

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The team's outstanding performance

Of major significance or importance

noun

A ruler, especially a feudal lord.

Usage examples:

Charles was overlord of vast territories in europe

adjective

More important than anything else; supreme.

Usage examples:

The interests of the child are of paramount importance

proper noun

A city in south-western california, south-east of los angeles; population 55,236 (est. 2008).

adjective

More important than anything else

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Everybody agrees that education is the paramount issue.

adjective

Having great power, influence, or effect.

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Thrones were potent symbols of authority

noun

Fur resembling vair, but with the alternating pieces t-shaped.

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Potent is believed to have been originally derived from vair.

adjective

Powerful, persuasive, or effective

Usage examples:

This is the most potent headache remedy you can get without a prescription., her voice has been a p…

noun

A monarch or ruler, especially an autocratic one.

Usage examples:

The dutch tried to put it together and were able to keep it together through playing sultans and lo…

noun

A ruler who has a lot of power, especially one whose power is not limited, for example by the existence of a parliament

adjective

Having great power or strength.

Usage examples:

A fast, powerful car

adverb

Very.

Usage examples:

Walking is powerful hot work

adjective

Strong

Usage examples:

The picture quality is bad because the tv signal isn’t powerful enough., a powerful drug, he’s in a…

adjective

Of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas.

Usage examples:

There are two obvious practical applications of the research

noun

An examination or lesson in which theories and procedures learned are applied to the actual making or doing of something.

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It means they are on their own on the final hurdle of a seemingly endless slog of course work, mock…

adjective

Relating to actual experience or to the use of knowledge in activities rather than to knowledge only or ideas

Usage examples:

I know you’ve been trained as a teacher, but do you have any practical teaching experience?, you’ve…

adjective

Present as the strongest or main element.

Usage examples:

The predominant colour was white

noun

The son of a monarch.

Usage examples:

I was anticipating a marvelous story with a princess waiting for her prince in her royal castle.

proper noun

(1958–2016), us singer, songwriter, and musician; born prince rogers nelson. known for his distinctive fusion of funk, rock, and dance music as well as his flamboyant dress and highly sexual lyrics, he achieved international fame in the 1980s with songs like purple rain (1984), when doves cry (1984), and kiss (1986).

noun

A member of a royal family, esp. a son of a king or queen

noun

The daughter of a monarch.

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Her name is r'jas un z'kovn sy'yski and she is the muse princess, daughter of prince noyus and next…

noun

A member of a royal family, esp. a daughter of a king or queen

adjective

First in order of importance; main.

Usage examples:

The country's principal cities

noun

The most important or senior person in an organization or group.

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A design consultancy whose principal is based in san francisco

adjective

First in order of importance

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Iraq’s principal export is oil.

adjective

Producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.

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The most productive employees

adjective

Causing or providing a good result or a large amount of something

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We had a very productive meeting – a lot of problems were solved., what was once desert has become …

adjective

Producing a large number of goods, crops, profit, etc. or doing a lot of work

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Productive farmland/sector/economy the only remaining option is to switch underemployed workers fro…

noun

The female ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.

Usage examples:

He insisted the princess could be crowned queen

verb

A gay man, especially one regarded as ostentatiously effeminate.

noun

A woman who rules a country because she has been born into a family which by tradition or law has the right to rule, or the title given to such a woman

Usage examples:

Queen elizabeth ii, the reigning queen of crime writers, a beauty queen, the queen of hearts, a que…

adjective

Of, resembling, or fit for a monarch, especially in being magnificent or dignified.

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Her regal bearing

noun

A small portable reed organ of the 16th and 17th centuries, with a pair of horizontal bellows on top.

Usage examples:

Small portable organs consisting entirely of regals were widely used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

adjective

Consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted.

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A reliable source of information

noun

A reliable person or thing.

Usage examples:

The supporting cast includes old reliables like mitchell

adjective

Able to be depended on; consistent or steady

adjective

Having the status of a king or queen or a member of their family.

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Contributors included members of the royal family

noun

A member of the royal family.

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The royals are coming under the tv microscope

adjective

Belonging or connected to a king or queen

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Sweden’s royal family

noun

A person exercising government or dominion.

Usage examples:

Luanda on the angola coast was a portuguese town from which they tried to exercise control over afr…

noun

A narrow, flat object with straight edges you can use to draw straight lines and having marks you can use to measure things

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A military ruler

noun

An authoritative decision or pronouncement, especially one made by a judge.

Usage examples:

The ruling was reversed in the appeal court

adjective

Currently exercising authority or influence.

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The ruling coalition

verb

Exercise ultimate power or authority over (an area and its people).

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The region today is ruled by elected politicians

adjective

Highest in rank or authority.

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A unified force with a supreme commander

noun

A rich cream sauce.

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Chicken supreme

adjective

At the highest level

Usage examples:

The dictionary was called the supreme authority on all matters relating to the language., he was su…

adjective

Certain to succeed.

Usage examples:

Bad behaviour is a sure-fire way of getting attention

noun

A sovereign or state having some control over another state that is internally autonomous.

Usage examples:

The policy of the local ruler of fergana against the arabs oscillated between conciliation and atte…

noun

A country that partly controls another country, or the ruler of such a country

Usage examples:

As the transvaal’s suzerain power, it would have been england’s duty to try to avert bloodshed., th…

adjective

Comprising the whole number or amount.

Usage examples:

A total cost of £4,000

noun

The whole number or amount of something.

Usage examples:

He scored a total of thirty-three points

verb

Amount in number to.

Usage examples:

They were left with debts totalling £6,260

noun

An emperor of russia before 1917.

Usage examples:

Tsar nicholas ii

noun

Czar

adjective

Being or happening at the end of a process; final.

Usage examples:

Their ultimate aim was to force his resignation

noun

The best achievable or imaginable of its kind.

Usage examples:

The ultimate in decorative luxury

adjective

Most important, highest, last, or final

Usage examples:

Your ultimate goal is to play the game as well as you can., some people believe that he is the ulti…

adjective

Having or appearing to have no limits.

Usage examples:

The possibilities are unbounded

adjective

Very great; seeming to have no limits

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An unbounded commitment to excellence

adjective

Not subject to any conditions.

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Unconditional surrender

adjective

Complete and not limited in any way

Usage examples:

Unconditional love, he got an unconditional release from prison.

adjective

Complete and not limited in any way

Usage examples:

They have my unconditional support., the shares, which begin unconditional trading tomorrow, were p…

adjective

Without error or fault.

Usage examples:

His unfailing memory for names

adjective

(of a positive quality of someone’s character) showing itself at all times

Usage examples:

She was known for her unfailing good humor.

adjective

Not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity, or extent.

Usage examples:

Offshore reserves of gas and oil are not unlimited

adjective

Not having a limit or highest possible amount, number, or level

Usage examples:

If you rent the car for the week, you get unlimited mileage (= the amount you pay is not related to…

adjective

Not limited in amount, number, or level

Usage examples:

Unlimited access/time we pay a flat monthly rate of $19.95 for unlimited internet access., unlimite…

adjective

Not restrained or restricted.

Usage examples:

A display of unrestrained delight

adjective

Not limited in any way

Usage examples:

Unrestrained fury, unrestrained capitalism

adjective

Not limited or restricted.

Usage examples:

Unrestricted access to both military bases

adjective

Not limited or controlled by rules or laws

Usage examples:

A public library must allow the town's citizens unrestricted access to its resources.

adjective

Able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways.

Usage examples:

Aspirins are useful for headaches

adjective

Helping you to do or obtain something

Usage examples:

Your advice was very useful, saving me a lot of time., i was usefully occupied packing dishes all m…

adjective

Complete; absolute.

Usage examples:

Charlotte stared at her in utter amazement

verb

Make (a sound) with one's voice.

Usage examples:

He uttered an exasperated snort

adjective

Complete or extreme

Usage examples:

What an utter fool i was!, she felt isolated and utterly alone., she sat through the entire meeting…

adjective

Worth a great deal of money.

Usage examples:

A valuable antique

noun

A thing that is of great worth, especially a small item of personal property.

Usage examples:

Put all your valuables in the hotel safe

adjective

Important, useful, or beneficial

Usage examples:

Niekro was named the most valuable player in baseball., they perform valuable services for poor, ru…

adjective

Worth the time, money, or effort spent; of value or importance.

Usage examples:

Extra lighting would make a worthwhile contribution to road safety

adjective

Useful, important, or helpful enough to be a suitable reward for the money or time spent or the effort made

Usage examples:

She considers teaching a worthwhile career.