Usually means: Authority to govern without interference.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word sovereign:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sovereign: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sovereign: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sovereign: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sovereign: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sovereign: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sovereign, sovereign: Wordnik
  7. sovereign: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sovereign: Wiktionary
  9. sovereign: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sovereign: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sovereign: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sovereign: Dictionary.com
  13. sovereign: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sovereign: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sovereign (British coin), Sovereign (C. J. Sansom novel), Sovereign (EP), Sovereign (English coin), Sovereign (Sansom novel), Sovereign (album), Sovereign (building), Sovereign (coin), Sovereign (disambiguation), Sovereign (horse), Sovereign (video game), Sovereign, The Sovereign: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sovereign: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sovereign: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sovereign: Rhymezone
  19. sovereign: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sovereign: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Sovereign: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. sovereign: Free Dictionary
  23. sovereign: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sovereign: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. sovereign: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. sovereign: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  6. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  8. sovereign: Legal dictionary
  9. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sovereign: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sovereign: The Folk File
  2. sovereign: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sovereignly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Exercising power of rule.
adjective:  Exceptional in quality.
adjective:  (now rare, pharmacology) Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
adjective:  Having supreme, ultimate power.
adjective:  Princely; royal.
adjective:  Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
noun:  A monarch; the ruler of a country.
noun:  One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
noun:  A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
noun:  A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
noun:  A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles.
noun:  Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, eg., ursula, viceroy.
noun:  (UK, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
verb:  (transitive) To rule over as a sovereign.
noun:  The title of a monarch.
noun:  God, the supreme being who has power over all creation.
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  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.]

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