ancien regime

1. 1.

   a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution)

   Broadergovernment

   France

Questions about ancien regime

What does ancien regime mean?

ancien regime means "a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution)".

Is ancien regime a common word?

ancien regime is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.