Thesaurus: sovereign

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1. a. Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.
2. a. Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.
3. a. Princely; royal.
4. a. Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
5. a. Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.
6. n. The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.
7. n. 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.
8. n. Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
9. adj. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
10. adj. greatest in status or authority or power
11. n. a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
12. 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. 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. (Zoöl.) Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy. Syn. -- King; prince; monarch; potentate; emperor.