reignとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English regnen, from Old French reignier, from the Latin verb rēgnō, and the noun rēgnum. Doublet of 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.

   • 2020 December 6, Xin Yan, “The Seemingly Impossible Is Possible”, in Minghui‎^[1]:

     Throughout history, no single dictator has successfully upheld their reign forever, no matter how powerful they seemed to be.

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.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] VVilliam Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294:

     And the Fox guileful, and most covetous;
     That neither pleased was, to have the reign
     Twixt them divided into even twain

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.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
     And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.

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

     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.

   Silence reigned.

   • 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^[3], 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.

同意語

• rix (廃れた用法)

派生語

• reign supreme