Meaning

3 senses

  1. (UK, slang)Pound sterling.

    That car of his has got to be worth a few sovs.

  2. (UK, slang)A sovereign (former gold coin).

  3. (slang)A sovereign citizen.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. SOV (subject-object-verb) is the most common word order for languages.

    Hybrid · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. Japanese is a major SOV language.

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Origin

Shortened from sovereign.

Shortened from sovereign.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: sovs
Singularsov
Pluralsovs

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
poundB1quidnicker

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
southwestB1southwesternsouvenirB1sovereignsovereignty

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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