supreme authority

1. 1.

   someone with the power to settle matters at will

   “she was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion”

   Synonymsarbiter

   Broaderexpert

Questions about supreme authority

What does supreme authority mean?

supreme authority means "someone with the power to settle matters at will".

What is another word for supreme authority?

Close synonyms include arbiter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is supreme authority a common word?

supreme authority is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.