regent
pronunciation
How to pronounce regent in British English:
UK ['ri:dʒənt]
How to pronounce regent in American English:
US [ˈridʒənt]
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- Noun:
- members of a governing board
- someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch
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- Adjective:
- acting or functioning as a regent or ruler
Word Origin
- regent
- regent: [14] Regent is one of a large family of English words that go back to Latin regere ‘rule’, a descendant of the Indo-European base reg- ‘move in a straight line’, hence ‘direct, guide, rule’. Others include correct, direct, dirge, erect, rector, régime [18], regimen [14] (and its more heavily disguised twin realm), regiment [14] (which originally meant ‘government’), region [14] (etymologically a ‘governed area’), resurrect, source, and surge. Regent itself comes from the present participle of the Latin verb.Related words in Latin include rēx ‘king’ (source of English regal, regalia, royal, etc), rēgula ‘rule’ (source of English rail ‘bar’, regular, rule, etc), and rēgnum ‘kingship’ (source of English reign); and among other English words from the same Indo-European source are raj, rich, and right.=> address, correct, direct, dirge, dress, erect, rajah, realm, rector, regiment, region, regular, reign, right, royal, rule
- regent (n.)
- "one who rules during the minority or absence of a sovereign," c. 1400, from the adjective (now archaic, attested in English late 14c.), from Old French regent and directly from Medieval Latin regentem (nominative regens), from Latin regens "ruler, governor," noun use of present participle of regere "to rule, direct" (see regal). Senses of "university faculty member" is attested from mid-15c., originally Scottish.
Example
- 1. The idea is that mr chang will act as a kind of regent .
- 2. George , the prince regent , was lampooned as a dissolute " dandy of sixty " .
- 3. Even so , there is no certainty that afactionalised elitewould accept rule by the 27-year-old basketball fan with his uncle acting as regent .
- 4. This succession 's viability may well depend on the work of a " regent " : kim jong il 's brother-in-law chang sung taek .
- 5. Several people close to the company now believe that mr carey 's chances of playing a prince regent role holding the ring until mr murdoch 's children sort out succession among themselves - have increased .