| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| |
| regent |
| |
| SYLLABICATION: | re·gent |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r  j nt |
| NOUN: | 1. One who rules during the minority, absence, or disability of a monarch. 2. One acting as a ruler or governor. 3. A member of a board that governs an institution, such as a state university. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin regns, regent-, ruler, from present participle of regere, to rule. See reg- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | regent·al (-jn-tl) —ADJECTIVE
| | |
| |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
