Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Regency |
RegencyNoun1. (England) the Regency was the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity. 2. The office of a regent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Regency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The English Regency, or simply Regency, is a name typically given to a period from 1811 to 1820 in the history of the United Kingdom.During this time the Prince Regent, later King George IV of the United Kingdom, governed the United Kingdom during the incapacity of his father, King George III of the United Kingdom.
Artistic trends of the time include:
Famous persons:
- Regency dance
- Regency novels
- Jane Austen
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- Lord Granville Leveson Gower
- Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire
- Richard, 7th Earl of Barrymore
- William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry ("Old Q")
- Charles James Fox
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "English Regency."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A regency is a period when a regent holds power in the name of the current monarch.The term may also refer specifically to the Regency period of the United Kingdom, often called the English Regency.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Regency."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
For the trademarked insecticide see Regent (insecticide)
A regent is an acting governor. In a monarchy, a regent usually rules due to the actual monarch's absence, incapacity, or minority. Occasionally, the term regent refers to positions lower than the ruler of a country; for instance, some university managers are called regents.
Examples of regents in various countries :
China
- See Empress dowager and Grand Empress Dowager
Egypt
- Hatshepsut of Egypt for Thutmose III of Egypt
France
- Anne of Kiev, during the minority of her son Philip I
- Catherine de Medici:
- While her husband Henry II of France left the kingdom for the campaign of Metz.
- Later during the minority of her son Francis II of France
- Again during the minority of her second son, Charles IX of France.
- Anne of Austria, during the minority of Louis XIV
- Philippe of Orleans (1715-1723), during the minority of Louis XV
- Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, while living in exile, self-declared Regent for his nephew Louis XVII of France after the 1793 guillotining of King Louis XVI.
Japan
- Fujiwara Regents as Kanpaku or Sessho
- Hojo Regents as Shikken, regents of the Kamakura shogunate
Netherlands
- Queen Emma, during the minority of her daughter Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Norway
- Crown Prince Haakon, during the illness of his father King Harald
Scotland
- Mary of Guise, during the minority of her daughter Mary Stuart
United Kingdom
See also: Regency
- George IV, Prince Regent during the incapacity of his father, George III.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Regent."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commission | Vicegerency; regency, regentship. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Regency |
| English words defined with "Regency": Beau Brummell, Brummell ♦ George Bryan Brummell ♦ Nonregent ♦ Regencies, Regentship. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Regency": Chambre Ardente ♦ Golden Ball, Green Bag Inquiry ♦ Parliament of Bats. (references) |
| Domain | Title | ||
References |
| ||
Books |
| ||
Consumer Goods | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
 |
| "Balcony" by Denis R. Commentary: "Balcony of a victorian house in Regency Square, Brighton, UK." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The hotel is a resort hotel near the city’s airport, and is also very close to the Hyatt Regency Casino, which has the largest casino in Europe. (references) | |
Economic History | Nepal | Notable examples are the Soaltee Holiday Inn Crown Plaza Hotel, the Radisson Hotel and the Hyatt Regency Taragon Hotel. (references) |
Hungary | It experienced a brief but bloody communist dictatorship and counterrevolution in 1919, followed by a 25-year regency under Adm. (references) | |
Travel | Uae | Accommodations: Most major international hotel chains are in the UAE, including the Hilton, Sheraton, Crowne Plaza, Intercontinental, Hyatt Regency, Holiday Inn, Howard Johnson and JW Marriott. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers toward our consul to that Regency. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The consul-general residing with that Regency has suddenly and without cause been banished, together with all the American citizens found there. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Since his return to Lisbon a revolution in Brazil has established a new Government there with an imperial title, at the head of which is placed a prince, in whom the regency had been vested by the King at the time of his departure. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Regency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.58% of the time. "Regency" is used about 190 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.58% | 155 | 25,240 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.89% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (common) | 0.53% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 190 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Regency Affiliates, Inc. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Regency, VA |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Regency": Regency-cum-fifties, regency-style, regency-white. | |
Ending with "Regency": vice-regency. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Regency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | regjencë. (various references) | |
Arabic | مجلس الوصاية على العرش, مدة الوصاية, وصاية على العرش. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | регентство (protectorship). (various references) | |
Czech | vladařství. (various references) | |
Farsi | اداره یاحکومت نایب السلطنه . (various references) | |
Finnish | sijaishallitus, holhoojahallitus. (various references) | |
French | régence. (various references) | |
German | Regentschaft (reign). (various references) | |
Greek | αντιβασιλεία (regentship). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עוצרות (regentship). (various references) | |
Hungarian | régensség, kormányzóság. (various references) | |
Italian | reggenza. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 摂政 (regent). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せっしょう (destruction of life, killing, negotiation, regent). (various references) | |
Manx | lhiass-reeaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egencyray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | regência, período de regência, governo (administration, energy, governance, government, guidance, helm, joystick, polity, power, president, province, regiment, rein, rule, ruling, steering wheel), domínio (ascendance, ascendancy, command, dominance, domination, dominion, energy, estate, lordship, masterdom, mastership, mastery, ownership, power, property, province, realm, reign, rein, ruling, tenure). (various references) | |
Romanian | regenţã, consiliu de regenţã. (various references) | |
Russian | регентство. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | regenstvo, vladavina (governance, polity, raj, reign, rule). (various references) | |
Spanish | regencia. (various references) | |
Swedish | regeringsämbete. (various references) | |
Turkish | naiblik süresi, kral naipliği. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | регентство. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Regency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eency, egency, refence, regen, Regence, Regny, Revenko. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Regency" (pronounced rē"junsē) |
| 5 | -j u n s ē | agency, cogency, contingency, counterinsurgency, emergency, exigency, insurgency, interagency, nonemergency, stringency, urgency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, latency, dormancy, efficiency, equivalency, excellency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, irrelevancy, leniency, malignancy, militancy, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: energy, greeny, gyrene. | |
-2 letters: genre, green. | |
-3 letters: cere, eery, eger, erne, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyre, gene, gree, grey, gyre. | |
-4 letters: cee, cry, eng, ere, erg, ern, eye, gee, gen, gey, nee, rec, ree, reg, rye, yen. | |
-5 letters: en, er, ne, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-n-r-y" | |
+2 letters: clergymen, emergency, glycerine, sergeancy. | |
+3 letters: cryogenies, degeneracy, detergency, divergency, glycerines, regeneracy, synergetic. | |
+4 letters: clergywomen, convergency, embryogenic, generically, glycerinate, interagency, reconveying, rejectingly, superagency, vicegerency. | |
+5 letters: belligerency, decertifying, decreasingly, electrifying, glycerinated, glycerinates, greengrocery, nonemergency, recertifying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Digital Art 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Company Usage 11. Cities 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
