Regent

['riːdʒ(ə)nt] or ['ridʒənt]

解释:

(noun.) someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch.

(noun.) members of a governing board.

(adj.) acting or functioning as a regent or ruler; 'prince-regent' .

伯尼编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Ruling; governing; regnant.

(a.) Exercising vicarious authority.

(a.) One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.

(a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.

(a.) One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

(a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools.

杰米整理

同义词及近义词：

n. Governor, ruler, director.

手打:肖恩

解释:

adj. invested with interim or vicarious sovereign authority.—n. one invested with interim authority: one who rules for the sovereign: a college professor as formerly in Scotland and elsewhere: a master or doctor who takes part in the regular duties of instruction and government in some universities.—ns. Rē′gent-bird an Australian bird related to the bower-birds; Rē′gentess; Rē′gentship office of a regent: deputed authority.

录入:莱尔