reignとは

語源

From Middle English regnen, borrowed from Old French regner, from the Latin verb rēgnō, and the noun regnum

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪn/
• 異形同音異義語: rain, rein
• 韻: -eɪn

名詞

reign (複数形 reigns)

1. The exercise of sovereign power.

   England prospered under Elizabeth I's reign.

   • Prior

     Saturn's sons received the threefold reign / Of heaven, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.

2. The period during which a monarch rules.

   The reign of Victoria was a long one.

3. The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

動詞

reign (三人称単数 現在形 reigns, 現在分詞 reigning, 過去形および過去分詞形 reigned)

1. (intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.

   He reigned in an autocratic manner.

2. (transitive, まれに, nonstandard) To reign over (a country)
   • 2007, Anna Chilewska, Writing after the gaze: the rupture of the historical

     The House of Piast reigned Poland from its foundation to 1385.

3. To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
4. To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
   • 2007, Richard Bawden, “Redesigning Animal Agriculture: a Systemic Perspective”, in David L. Swain, Ed Charmley, John Steel, Shaun Coffey, editors, Redesigning Animal Agriculture: The Challenge of the 21st Century‎^[1], CABI, page 1:

     Unfortunately – and ironically – the word ‘system’ itself is used in such a wide variety of contexts within animal science, as indeed it is in virtually every domain of human activity, that confusion reigns about what a systems-oriented research programme actually looks like and what systems-oriented animal scientists actually do.

アナグラム

• Grein, Negri, Niger, niger, nigre, re-nig, renig, ringe