sovereign

About 9.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Exercising power of rule.

   sovereign nation

2. adjective Having supreme, ultimate power; having fully independent power in international relations.

   sovereign country

3. adjective Exceptional in quality.

   Her voice was her sovereign talent.

4. adjective Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
5. adjective Princely; royal.
6. adjective Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
7. noun A monarch: a supreme ruler of a country in a monarchical system.
8. noun One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation. Ellipsis of sovereign citizen.

Similar words

monarch supreme autonomous self-governing independent free dominant crowned head royal king

Often followed by

of power and state states rights in lord to

Word family

sovereignly sovereigns sovran sovrans