Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.
Independent of, and unlimited by, any other; possessing, or entitled to, original authority or jurisdiction; as, a sovereign state; a sovereign discretion.
Princely; royal. "Most sovereign name." Shak. At Babylon was his sovereign see. Chaucer.
Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount. We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good. Hooker.
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.
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.
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.
Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalidi, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
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