sovereign

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1. sovereign - Noun

2. sovereign - Adjective

3. sovereign - Verb

4. sovereign - Adjective Satellite

5. Sovereign - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Efficacious in the highest degree; effectual; controlling; as, a sovereign remedy.

The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor.

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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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. Andrew Jackson

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. Thornton Wilder

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. Honoré de Balzac

Better a good shilling than a dud sovereign. Welsh Proverb

Each sovereign maintains his own courtiers. Chinese Proverb

"if you have no money, turn placeman!” as the court fool said to his sovereign. German Proverb

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