sovereign
IPA: sˈɑvrʌn
noun
- A monarch; the ruler of a country.
- One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
- A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
- A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
- A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles.
- Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
- (UK, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
- A surname from German.
- Ellipsis of sovereign citizen. [A member of a loose movement of Americans, Canadians and Australians who consider themselves answerable only to their own particular interpretation of the common law, and not subject to any government statutes or proceedings.]
verb
- (transitive) To rule over as a sovereign.
adjective
- Exercising power of rule.
- Exceptional in quality.
- (now rare, pharmacology) Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
- Having supreme, ultimate power.
- Princely; royal.
- Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
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Examples of "sovereign" in Sentences
- The sovereign country is the UK.
- The kingdom is the sovereign state.
- The power of the sovereign is absolute.
- The pope used to be the sovereign of the state.
- The sovereign source of melancholy is repletion.
- The symbol of the monarchy is the sovereign herself.
- The Prince of Wales becomes the Sovereign of the country.
- The newspaper was published on the order of the Sovereign.
- The legislator is the sovereign, and is not subject to the law.
- The Sovereign of the United Kingdom is the last anointed monarch.
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