sovran

[ sov-ruhn, suhv- ]

noun

, Literary.

1. sovereign.

sovran

/ ˈsɒvrən /

noun

1. a literary word for sovereign

Derived Forms

• ˈsovranty, noun
• ˈsovranly, adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of sovran¹

1625–35; alteration of sovereign, modeled on Italian sovrano

Example Sentences

Later he worked at Commonwealth Bank and Trust as well as Virginia National Bank, and was a founding executive of Sovran Bank.

From Washington Post

Playing the game brought to mind a couplet from the Keats poem “Ode to Melancholy,” which captures the oscillating sentiments embedded in the tales, “in the very temple of Delight/Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine.”

From Washington Post

Grover “Bud” Manderfield, 84, a Washington-area banker who began his career in 1958 as a loan officer of the bank of Occoquan in Virginia and retired in 1987 as president of Sovran Bank, died Feb. 17 at a hospital in Alexandria, Va. The cause was pneumonia, said his wife, Iris “Sam” Manderfield.

From Washington Post

Mr. Manderfield, an Alexandria resident, was born in Massillon, Ohio, and grew up in Woodbridge, Va. He was president of Suburban Bancorp when it merged in 1985 with Sovran Financial Corp., and Mr. Manderfield became president of its subsidiary Sovran Bank.

From Washington Post

After several later mergers, Sovran became part of Bank of America.

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