noun (n)

• government free from external control(noun.state)

  source: wordnet30
• royal authority; the dominion of a monarch(noun.state)

  Synonym:
  reign
  

  source: wordnet30
• the authority of a state to govern another state(noun.attribute)

  source: wordnet30
• The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties.(noun)

  source: webster1913