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suzerain

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su·ze·rain  (szr-n, -z-rn)
n.
1. A nation that controls another nation in international affairs but allows it domestic sovereignty.
2. A feudal lord to whom fealty was due.

[French, from Old French suserain : probably sus, up (from Latin srsum, ssum, upward, from *subsvorsum, turned upward : subs-, sub-, from under; see sub- + vorsum variant of versus; see versus) + souverein, sovereign; see sovereign.]

suze·rain adj.

suzerain
Noun
1. a state or sovereign that has some degree of control over a dependent state
2. (formerly) a person who had power over many people [French]
suzerainty n
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Noun1.suzerain - a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs
body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, land - a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

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