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say it: rayn
reign is a noun and verb meaning "a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
“he was helpless under the reign of his egotism”
the period during which a monarch is sovereign
“during the reign of Henry VIII”
royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
“Money reigns supreme here”
“Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood”
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 reign 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.