reign

Definitions


[reɪn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- hold royal office; rule as monarch
(e.g: Queen Elizabeth reigns over the UK)


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Origin:
Middle English: from Old French reignier ‘to reign’, reigne ‘kingdom’, from Latin regnum, related to rex, reg- ‘king’


[reɪn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the period of rule of a monarch
(e.g: the original chapel was built in the reign of Charles I)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French reignier ‘to reign’, reigne ‘kingdom’, from Latin regnum, related to rex, reg- ‘king’




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