REGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regent mean? 

• REGENT (noun)
  The noun REGENT has 2 senses:

1. members of a governing board

2. someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch

  Familiarity information: REGENT used as a noun is rare.

• REGENT (adjective)
  The adjective REGENT has 1 sense:

1. acting or functioning as a regent or ruler

  Familiarity information: REGENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Members of a governing board

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

regent; trustee

Hypernyms ("regent" is a kind of...):

committee member (a member of a committee)

Holonyms ("regent" is a member of...):

governing board (a board that manages the affairs of an institution)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("regent" is a kind of...):

ruler; swayer (a person who rules or commands)

Instance hyponyms:

Catherine de Medicis (queen of France as the wife of Henry II and regent during the minority of her son Charles IX (1519-1589))

Derivation:

regent (acting or functioning as a regent or ruler)

• REGENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acting or functioning as a regent or ruler

Context example:

prince-regent

Similar:

powerful (having great power or force or potency or effect)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

Derivation:

regency (the office of a regent)

regent (someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch)

 Context examples 

I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as Jane Eyre: in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)