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.
  • The term sovereign is from the French "sovereign," and that again from the Latin "supernus."
  • This is what he terms the sovereign debt delusion (see "Too big to rescue" for more on this).
  • They have what they call sovereign wealth now, and some of those countries are interested in investing.
  • If you hear the term sovereign debt crisis ten times a day that is because now that the bailed out are now saved states will be allowed to fail.
  • After the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and 1998, the IMF proposed an institutionalized default program, which it called the sovereign debt restructuring mechanism.
  • The sovereign is the agent for the purpose of directing the united strength for the common benefit; but the sovereign is an agent of unlimited discretion, and with authority that cannot be revoked.
  • The Kremlin's deputy chief of staff Vladislav Surkov - known as Russia's grey cardinal who coined the phrase sovereign democracy to describe its political system - told a forum in Moscow that "no radical steps would be undertaken" in the next years.
  • In using the term sovereign, I am not as concerned about the concept of sovereignty and whether the Assad regime deserves to have its sovereignty respected as I am concerned with the fact that the Syrian military still has the capability to resist such an invasion of the country's territory.
  • England could stamp on her sovereign, _Equal to a U.S. half eagle_, and we could stamp on our half eagle, _Equal to a British sovereign_, and thus furnish a currency, which from necessity would in time be adopted by all the world, avoiding vast trouble, loss of time, and litigation, and saving millions of dollars every year.

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