 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sovereign
adjective
1: of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign
state" [syn: {autonomous}, {independent}, {self-governing}]
2: greatest in status or authority or power; "a supreme
tribunal" [syn: {supreme}]
noun: a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary
right [syn: {crowned head}, {monarch}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sovereign \Sov"er*eign\ (? or ?; 277), adjective [OE. soverain,
sovereyn, OF. soverain, suvrain, F. souverain, LL. superanus,
fr. L. superus that is above, upper, higher, fr. super above.
See {Over}, {Super}, and cf. {Soprano}. The modern spelling
is due to a supposed connection with reign.]
1. Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others;
chief; as, our sovereign prince.
2. Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing,
or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a
sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.
3. Princely; royal. ''Most sovereign name.'' --Shak.
At Babylon was his sovereign see. --Chaucer.
4. Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.
--Hooker.
5. Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling;
as, a sovereign remedy. --Dryden.
Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the
regulation of the lives and actions of men. --South.
{Sovereign state}, a state which administers its own
government, and is not dependent upon, or subject to,
another power.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sovereign \Sov"er*eign\ (? or ?; 277), noun
1. The person, body, or state in which independent and
supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a
king, queen, or emperor.
No question is to be made but that the bed of the
Mississippi belongs to the sovereign, that is, to
the nation. --Jefferson.
2. A gold coin of Great Britain, on which an effigy of the
head of the reigning king or queen is stamped, valued at
one pound sterling, or about $4.86.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Any butterfly of the tribe {Nymphalidi}, or
genus {Basilarchia}, as the ursula and the viceroy.
Syn: King; prince; monarch; potentate; emperor.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
201 Moby Thesaurus words for "sovereign":
absolute, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise,
almighty, anointed king, arch, ascendant, at the head, autarchic,
autarkic, autonomous, banner, blue-ribbon, boss, boundless,
capital, cardinal, central, champion, changeless, chief, chieftain,
classical, coin, commanding, controlling, creating, creative,
crown, crowned head, crowning, directing, dominant, double eagle,
doubloon, ducat, dynast, dynastic, eagle, emperor, eternal,
eternally the same, everlasting, fine, first, first-class,
five-dollar gold piece, focal, foremost, free-spirited,
freewheeling, general, glorious, gold piece, good, governing,
grand duke, great, guiding, guinea, half crown, half eagle,
hallowed, hard money, head, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic,
high chief, highest, holy, immortal, immutable, imperator,
imperatorial, imperatorious, imperial, imperious, in ascendancy,
in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, independent,
individualistic, infinite, inner-directed, just, king,
king-emperor, kinglet, kinglike, kingly, leading, limitless,
lord paramount, loving, luminous, magisterial, main, majestic,
majesty, making, master, merciful, moidore, monarch, monarchal,
monarchial, monarchic, monarchical, napoleon, neutral, nonaligned,
nonpartisan, number one, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent,
omniscient, one, overbearing, overlord, overruling, paramount,
permanent, perpetual, petty king, piece, piece of money,
piece of silver, plenipotentiary, potentate, pound sovereign,
predominant, predominate, preeminent, prepollent, preponderant,
preponderate, prepotent, prevailing, prevalent, primal, primary,
prime, prince, prince consort, princelike, princely, principal,
purple, queenlike, queenly, radiant, ranking, regal, regnant,
regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, roll of coins,
rouleau, royal, royal personage, royalty, ruler, ruling, sacred,
self-contained, self-dependent, self-determined, self-directing,
self-governed, self-governing, self-reliant, self-subsistent,
self-sufficient, self-supporting, separate, shaping, specie, star,
stellar, supereminent, supreme, suzerain, ten-dollar gold piece,
tetrarch, third-force, third-world, timeless, topflight,
twenty-dollar gold piece, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging,
undefined, unlimited
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