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say it: REE-juhnt
regent is a noun and adjective meaning "members of a governing board". It carries 3 recorded senses.
members of a governing board
someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for regent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.