Meanings
nounsovereignhood (countable and uncountable, plural sovereignhoods)
plural sovereignhoods
- uncountableThe state or condition of a sovereign; sovereignty.
It meant politics, political personhood, republic, sovereignhood and power.
2017, Ranabir Samaddar, Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age, page 41 - countableAn independent or sovereign territory.
The people of the area were divided into the overlapping sovereignhood, and the British changed that when they arrived and when they left.
2021, Aparna Pande, Routledge Handbook on South Asian Foreign Policy
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sovereignhood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sovereignhood
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“sovereignhood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sovereignhood. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sovereignhood,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sovereignhood.
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