Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun suzerain

1 sense of suzerain

Sense 1
suzerain -- (a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs)
       => state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic -- (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")