English Dictionary

sovereignty

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsɒv.ɹən.ti/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

Of a polity: the state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations. / Of a ruler: supreme authority over all things.

日本語の意味

国家が他国の強制力を受けずに法律を制定し、資源を管理する権利・状態 / 支配者に対して、あらゆる事柄に対する最高権威・支配権

The constitution was amended to reinforce the state's sovereignty over its natural resources and legal system.

憲法は、国家が他国の強制を受けずに法を制定し天然資源を管理する主権を強化するために改正された。

意味（1）

Of a polity: the state of making laws and controlling resources without the coercion of other nations.

In today’s interconnected economies and societies, a formal independence is the opposite of gaining real sovereignty and control. This is because the excluded party would be absent from the table when decisions are made, unable to participate as choices are taken that, sooner or later, will affect them.

意味（2）

Of a ruler: supreme authority over all things.

But Fortune, oh, / She is corrupted, chang’d, and wonne from thee, / Sh’adulterates hourely with thine Vnckle Iohn, / And with her golden hand hath pluckt on France / To tread downe faire reſpect of Soueraigntie, / And made his Maieſtie the bawd to theirs.

意味（3）

Of a person: the liberty to decide one's thoughts and actions.

意味（4）

Excellence, mastery, preeminent efficacy.

[His head,] Wherein by curious ſoueraigntie of Art, Are fixt his piercing inſtruments of ſight: Whose fiery circles beare encompaſſed A heauen of heauenly bodies in their Spheares:

意味（5）

An independent or sovereign territory.

sovereignties （ plural ）