regent

Meanings

Plural: regents

Noun

• members of a governing board
• someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch
• A ruler.
• One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
• A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities.
• A member of governing board of a college or university; also a governor of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
• The chief executive of a regency

Adjective Satellite

• acting or functioning as a regent or ruler
  • "prince-regent"

Adj

• Ruling; governing; regnant.
• Exercising vicarious authority.

Synonyms

trustee

Related Words

rectangle, rectilinear, rector, rectum, regency, regental, regentship, regimen, regiment, region, régime

Anagrams of regent