Meaning of sovereign | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Exercising power of rule
2. A monarch; the ruler of a country.
3. The title of a monarch.
4. A surname from German.
5. Exceptional in quality
6. God, the supreme being who has power over all creation.
7. One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
8. Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.)
9. Ellipsis of sovereign citizen.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
10. Having supreme, ultimate power
11. A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
12. Princely; royal
13. A former Australian gold coin, minted from 1855–1931, of one pound value.
14. A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33+¹⁄₃ standard bottles.
15. Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, eg., ursula, viceroy.
16. A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
    UK, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.”

“Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Archangel, this the seat That we must change for Heaven?, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since hee Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid What shall be right : fardest from him is best Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream Above his equals. […]”

“No question is to be made but that the bed of the Missisippi^([sic]) belongs to the sovereign, that is, to the nation.”

“A loose network of perhaps tens of thousands of far-right antigovernment extremists, sovereigns share certain conspiratorial beliefs and, sometimes, a desire to profit off a government whose legitimacy they deny.”

“No, someone who wears loads of sovereigns as well loads of gold and has uh a curly perm and peroxide blonde hair, orange, orange sunbed skin and a fringe like this blow-dried to death, that’s a ‘scally’.”

“No visible tattoos, sovereigns, mismatched jewellery, scrunchies, large clips or hoop earrings.”

“To the security of the Protestant interests—to the security of the Protestant Church—it is not only our duty, as Members of the British Parliament, to pay particular attention, but, it is also the particular duty of the Sovereign himself.”

“Alas! and did my Saviour bleed? / And did my Sovereign dye?”

“My Sov'reign, to thy throne, / With humble hope I preſs, / O bow thine ear to hear the groan / Of indigent diſtreſs.”

“We trust You, Sovereign of our years / With all of our tomorrows”

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