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Definition: REIGNED |
REIGNEDImperative & past participle1. Of Reign |
Date "REIGNED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: REIGNED |
| English words defined with "REIGNED": Albino Luciano ♦ Camelot ♦ distinguished ♦ Hanover, Hanoverian line, House of Hanover, House of Lancaster, House of York ♦ imposing ♦ John Paul I ♦ King Cole ♦ Lancaster, Lancastrian line ♦ magisterial ♦ Plantagenet, Plantagenet line ♦ reign ♦ Seleucus, Seleucus I, Seleucus I Nicator ♦ York. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "REIGNED": Abbassides, Ahasuerus, Akbar, Amelon ♦ Citizen King ♦ ELIZABETH ♦ Gaznivides, Gyges' Ring ♦ Innis Fodhla, Ishbosheth ♦ Kings ♦ Last of the Goths, Laws of the Medes and Persians, looking ♦ Mahadi, Mahanaim, Malluch, Man of the Third Republic ♦ Nergal-sharezer ♦ Saturnian Verses, Sortes Virgilianae ♦ Wise as the Mayor of Banbury ♦ Zimri. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | When Hitler Reigned (1963) | |
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Christopher Marlowe | You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. |
Elizabeth I | Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. |
| For me it will be enough that a marble stone should declare that a queen having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Kings reigned ill at ease with the rock of Saint Helena in the horizon. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A cold lucid indifference reigned in his soul. |
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Economic History | Saudi Arabia | King Abdul Aziz died in 1953 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Saud, who reigned for 11 years. (references) |
The Netherlands | Her mother, Queen Emma, reigned as regent until 1898, when Wilhelmina reached the age of 18 and became the monarch. (references) | |
Vietnam | While Vietnam's emperors reigned ineffectually, powerful northern and southern families fought civil wars in the 17th and 18th centuries. (references) | |
Political Economy | Thailand | Thailand is a constitutional monarchy ruled by King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), a much-revered monarch who has reigned since 1946. The King plays little part in day-to-day government operations, but serves as a powerful symbol of Thai national identity and commands enormous moral authority, which he uses on occasion to resolve internal crises or to draw the government's attention to pressing social problems. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOOKING-:GLASS:, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day. |
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| "REIGNED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 78.85% of the time. "REIGNED" is used about 104 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 78.85% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 21.15% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 104 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reigned | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "REIGNED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 统治 (Dominant, dominantly, governance, reigning, ruled, ruling). (various references) | ||||
German | regierten (reigns), regierte (governed). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 재위하". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eignedray | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 36, Verse 36 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Apeqanen de adad kai ebasileusen ant' autou samala ek masekkaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cumque mortuus esset Adad regnavit pro eo Semla de Maserecha |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne Adad was deed, regnede for hym Semla of Masarech. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Whe Hadad was dead Samla of Masteka reigned in his steade. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 36, Verse 36 |
| Cebuano | Ug namatay si Adad, ug sa iyang dapit, naghari si Samla, nga Masrecahanon. |
| Chinese | " " 死 了 、 瑪 士 利 人 桑 拉 接 續 他 作 王 。 |
| Croatian | Kad je umro Hadad, zakraljio se na njegovo mjesto Samla iz Masreke. |
| Danish | Da Hadad døde, blev Samla fra Masreka Konge i hans Sted. |
| Dutch | En Hadad stierf, en Samla, van Masreka, regeerde in zijn plaats. |
| Finnish | Kun Hadad kuoli, tuli Samla, Masrekasta, kuninkaaksi hänen sijaansa. |
| French | Hadad mourut; et Samla, de Masréka, régna sa place. |
| German | Da Hadad starb, regierte Samla von Masrek. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè Adad mouri, se Samla, moun Masreka, ki te gouvènen nan plas li. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka matilah Hadad, lalu kerajaanlah Samla dari Masyreka akan gantinya. |
| Maori | Na ka mate a Harara, a ko Hamara o Mahareka te kingi i muri i a ia. |
| Norwegian | Da Hadad døde, blev Samla fra Masreka konge i hans sted. |
| Portuguese | Morreu Hadade; e Sâmela de Masreca reinou em seu lugar. |
| Rumanian | Hadad a murit; wi, kn locul lui, a kmpqrqyit Samla, din Masreca. |
| Swedish | När Hadad dog, blev Samla från Masreka konung efter honom. |
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Misspellings | |
"REIGNED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eriugena, freigned, raigne, raignes, regner, reigen, reigne, reigneth, rejigged, resgned, Rheingau, Treignac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "REIGNED" (pronounced rā"nd) |
| 4 | r ā" n d | brained, constrained, craned, drained, grained, ingrained, rained, refrained, reined, restrained, retrained, sprained, strained, trained, unconstrained, unrestrained, untrained. |
| 3 | -ā" n d | abstained, arraigned, ascertained, attained, campaigned, caned, chained, complained, contained, detained, disdained, entertained, explained, feigned, gained, maintained, maned, obtained, ordained, pained, pertained, planed, preordained, regained, remained, retained, stained, sustained, unexplained, unstained, waned. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dreeing, energid, reeding. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: denier, dinger, edgier, engird, gender, girned, nereid, reding, reined, ringed. | |
-2 letters: deign, diene, diner, dinge, dirge, edger, eider, ender, genie, genre, greed, green, gride, grind, reign, renig, ridge. | |
-3 letters: deer, dene, deni, dere, dine, ding, dire, dree, dreg, edge, eger, eide, erne, geed, gene, gied, gien, gird, girn, gree, grid, grin, ired, need. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: beringed, breeding, deringer, designer, energids, engirded, engirdle, fingered, gingered, lingered, receding, redesign, redyeing, reedings, reedling, regained, rehinged, renigged, resigned. | |
+2 letters: befringed, breedings, decerning, decreeing, deferring, degerming, demerging, denigrate, deperming, deraigned, deringers, derringer, deserting, deserving, designers, deterging, deterring, divergent, endearing, endoergic, energised, energized, engirdled, engirdles, engrailed, engrained, gaberdine, gendering, gerundive, gesneriad, gratineed, grenadier, grenadine, impregned, negritude, preceding, realigned, reddening, redeeming, redefying, redenying, redesigns, redingote, reediting, reedlings, refeeding, reignited, relending, remedying, remending, rendering, rereading, reseeding, resending, rewedding, rewelding, ridgeline, screeding, sniggered, tendering, vinegared. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 49 47 4E 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .. --. -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01001001 01000111 01001110 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E I G N E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0049 0047 004E 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52394341483938 |
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