Usually means: Authority to govern without interference.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word sovereignty:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sovereignty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sovereignty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sovereignty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sovereignty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sovereignty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sovereignty, sovereignty: Wordnik
  7. sovereignty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sovereignty: Wiktionary
  9. sovereignty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sovereignty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sovereignty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sovereignty: Dictionary.com
  13. sovereignty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sovereignty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sovereignty (Italy), Sovereignty (play), Sovereignty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sovereignty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sovereignty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sovereignty: Rhymezone
  19. sovereignty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sovereignty: Free Dictionary
  21. sovereignty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sovereignty: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. sovereignty: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sovereignty: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Sovereignty: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. sovereignty: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sovereignty: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sovereignty: Political
  2. sovereignty: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sovereignty: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sovereignty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sovereignties as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly uncountable) The quality or state of being sovereign.
noun:  Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
noun:  (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
noun:  (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
noun:  Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
noun:  (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.

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