Word Meaning

Meaning of "regent" and the crossword clue

- A ruler
- Appointed ruler
- Ruler
- Ruling queen
- Stand-in for monarch
- Stand-in monarch
- Ruling; governing; regnant.
- Exercising vicarious authority.
- One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.
- Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
- One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
- A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools.