REGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Regency mean? 

• REGENCY (noun)
  The noun REGENCY has 3 senses:

1. the period of time during which a regent governs

2. the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity

3. the office of a regent

  Familiarity information: REGENCY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period of time during which a regent governs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

rule (the duration of a monarch's or government's power)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

rule (the duration of a monarch's or government's power)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The office of a regent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

Derivation:

regent (acting or functioning as a regent or ruler)

 Context examples 

The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the days of the Regency.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)