| sovereign | |
| 1. adj. Exercising power of rule. | |
| sovereign nation | |
| 2. adj. Exceptional in quality. | |
| 3. adj. (now rare) Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.). | |
| 4. adj. Having supreme, ultimate power. | |
| 5. adj. Princely; royal. | |
| 6. adj. Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount. | |
| 7. n. A monarch; the ruler of a country. | |
| 8. n. One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation. | |
| 9. n. A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin. | |
| 10. n. A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33⅓ standard bottles. | |
| 11. n. Any butterfly of the tribe , or genus , as the ursula and the viceroy. | |
| 12. n. (slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring. | |
| 13. v. To rule over as a sovereign. | |
