regent

1. 1.

   acting or functioning as a regent or ruler

   “prince-regent”

   Similarpowerful

   combining form

Other forms of regent

plural

regents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about regent

What does regent mean?

regent means "members of a governing board". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regent?

regent has 2 syllables: re-gent. The stress falls on "re". In IPA it is /ˈɹidʒənt/.

What is another word for regent?

Close synonyms include trustee. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is regent a common word?

regent is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.