regentとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːdʒənt/

名詞

regent (複数形 regents)

1. (now まれに) A ruler. [from 15th c.]
2. One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled. [from 15th c.]
3. (now chiefly historical) A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities. [from 16th c.]
   • 1999, Philipp Blom, translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage 2001, p. 139:

     This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.

4. (Scotland, Canada, 米国用法) A member of governing board of a college or university; also a governor of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. [from 18th c.]
5. (Indonesia) The chief executive of a regency

派生語

• prince regent

関連する語

形容詞

regent (comparative more regent, superlative most regent)

1. Ruling; governing; regnant.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     Some other active regent principle […] which we call the soul.

2. Exercising vicarious authority.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     the regent powers

Further reading

• regent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• regent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

アナグラム

• Genter, gerent

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡent/, [ˈrɛ.ɡɛn̪t̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.d͡ʒent/, [ˈrɛː.d͡ʒɛn̪t̪]

動詞

regent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of regō