Noun: regent
| Singular | regent |
| Plural | regents |
Sample Sentences
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This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam. [1999, Geert Mak, translated by Philipp Blom, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage, published 2001, page 139:]
Nouns inflected like regent
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English regent, from Anglo-Norman regent, Middle French regent, and their source, Latin regēns (“ruling; ruler, governor, prince”), present participle of regō (“to govern, to steer”). See: Middle English Nouns '
regent', Latin Nouns '
regēns'.
Verbs referencing "regent"
Finnish Nouns
regentti.