Dictionary Entry
regent
regent is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Ruling; governing; regnant. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Ruling; governing; regnant.
- 2adjective
Exercising vicarious authority.
- 3adjective
One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.
- 4adjective
Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
- 5adjective
One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
- 6adjective
A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools.
- 7noun
someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch
- 8noun
members of a governing board
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- 9adjective
acting or functioning as a regent or ruler
"prince-regent"
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