Reign

Definition: Reign

Reign

Noun

1. A period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful; "he was helpless under the reign of his egotism".

2. The period during which a monarch is sovereign; "during the reign of Henry VIII".

3. Royal authority; the dominion of a monarch.

Verb

1. Have sovereign power; "Henry VIII reigned for a long time".

2. Be larger in number, quantity, or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reign" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Reign

Fear

Intimidation, terrorism, reign of terror.

Government

Verb: govern, rule, have authority, hold authority, possess authority, exercise authority, exert authority, wield authority; Noun: reign, be sovereign.

Rule, sway, command, control, administer; govern; (direct); lead, preside over, reign, possess the throne, be seated on the throne, occupy the throne; sway the scepter, wield the scepter; wear the crown.

Reign, regime, dynasty; directorship, dictatorship; protectorate, protectorship; caliphate, pashalic, electorate; presidency, presidentship; administration; proconsul, consulship; prefecture; seneschalship; magistrature, magistracy.

Influence

Noun: influence; importance; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull; authority; capability; (power); effect; interest.

Laxity

Anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening; Verb: remission; dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination; (disobedience); lynch law; (illegality); nihilism, reign of violence.

Pain

Hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of despond; (adversity); peck of troubles; "ills that flesh is heir to"; (evil); miseries of human life; "unkindest cut of all".

River

Rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash; dropping. Verb: falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon.

Severity

Arbitrary power; absolutism, despotism; dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression; assumption, usurpation; inquisition, reign of terror, martial law; iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway; tight grasp; brute force, brute strength; coercion; strong hand, tight hand.

Crosswords: Reign

As I anticipated and so ends the glorious reign of Terrorsaur (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

Pandemonium doesn't reign around hereit pours (Tiny Toon Adventures; writing credit: Charles Adler; Pat Allee)

A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; writing credit: Jules Verne; Earl Felton)

On the top of the earth below us, confusion and chaos reign. All mankind is facing an epic choice: a world of magic or a world of science (The Flight of Dragons; writing credit: Peter Dickinson; Gordon R. Dickson)

Chaos will reign. Governments will fall (XXX; writing credit: Rich Wilkes)

And love may reign once more (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M)

Freedom reign (The Remedy (I Won't Worry); performing artist: JASON MRAZ)

I guess I always thought you could end this reign (King Of Pain; performing artist: The Police)

Reign of Fire (2002)

Hitler's Reign of Terror (1934)

The Siren's Reign (1915)

In the Reign of Terror (1911)

WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy (reference)

• Reign of terror : the 1st Corgi book of great Victorian horror stories (reference)

• San Francisco's reign of terror (reference)

• The Rights of Man, the Reign of Terror: The Story of the French Revolution (reference)

• The Song at the Scaffold: A Novel of Horror and Holiness in the Reign of Terror (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blood Reign - Curse of the Yoma (reference)

• Reign in Darkness (reference)

• Reign Man (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Born To Reign (reference)

• Reign in Blood (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Reign of Fire (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Late 19th century printed cotton handkerchief from Russia, with sixteen vignettes depicting military life during reign of Alexander III with diagram showing component parts of a rifle used. Credit: Library of Congress.

House burning during Groveland Reign of Terror--Negroes driven from homes throughout area. Credit: Library of Congress.

The reign of Dolly Madison. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Given under our hand - the above named and many others being witnesses - in the meadow which is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June, in the seventeenth year of our reign. (reference)

As if the whole kingly authority were nothing else but to be their general: and therefore the tribes who had stuck to Saul's family, and opposed David's reign, when they came to Hebron with terms of submission to him, they tell him, amongst other arguments they had to submit to him as to their king, that he was in effect their king in Saul's time, and therefore they had no reason but to receive him as their king now. (Second Treatise of Government)

All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The ideal, under this splendid material reign, had received the strange name of ideology

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Swaziland

It also was during Mswati's reign that the first whites settled in the country. (references)

France

During the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715), France was the dominant power in Europe. (references)

Ethiopia

His reign was interrupted in 1936 when Italian Fascist forces invaded and occupied Ethiopia. (references)

Human Rights

Bolivia

Inside prison walls, prisoners usually have free reign. (references)

Political Economy

MOROCCO

Two years into his reign, King Mohammed VI continues to demonstrate energy and determination to reform Morocco's economy and to deepen its democratic structures. (references)

Jordan

The strong support shown by the U.S. during the transition period to the reign of King Abdullah following the death of King Hussein in 1999 is further evidence of that commitment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "reign": in the reign of ♦ reign of terror ♦ reign of violence ♦ reign over ♦ silence reign ♦ under the reign of. Additional references.

Beginning with "reign": reign-in, reign-years.

Afrikaans

beheersing (control, rule). (various references)

Albanian

sundoj (dominate, govern, overlord, overrule, rule), pushtoj (carry, conquer, creep over, enfold, engross, envelop, fold, hog, invade, jump, obsess, overcome, overreach, overrun, overtake, overwhelm, pervade, possess, reach, reduce, rush back, seize, smite, straddle, sweep, take, take a fancy to, take possession of), pushtet (arm, ascendancy, ascendency, attribution, Caesar, clout, clutches, jurisdiction, nomocracy, power), mbretëroj (queen), mbretërim (kingship), mbizotëroj (dominate, overpower, predominate, preponderate, prevail). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملك (get hold of, have, hold, king, monarch, own, ownership, possess, possession, prince, property, rejoice, sovereign), ‏نفوذ (authority, clout, in, influence, leverage, potency, power, prestige, purchase, standing, tutelage, weight, weightiness), ‏حكم يدير (dominate, rule), ‏حكم نظام, ‏حكم الملك أو نظامه, ‏تولى الملك, ‏سيطرة (ascendant, clutch, command, control, dominance, domination, empire, government, gripe, hand, hegemony, hold, mastery, overriding, predominance, predomination, prevalence, restraint, rule, ruling, weight), ‏سيطر (boss, command, control, dominate, govern, grip, keep, master, overcome, overpower, possess, predominate, repress, rule, sew up, take control, wield), ‏سلطان (authority, clutch, dominion, lordship, majesty, monarch, power, sultan, suzerainty), ‏ساد (dominate, plosive, prevail, rule, take over), ‏عم (pervade, prevail, uncle, whereof), ‏خيم (set up, tent), ‏العهد مدة حكم الملك. (various references)

Bulgarian 

силно влияние, царство (domain, kingdom, realm), царуване (kingship), царувам (sway), царя (preside, prevail), господствувам (dominate, overlord, prevail, rule), власт (arm, attribution, authority, authorization, control, disposition, grasp, grip, gripe, hand, helm, hold, jurisdiction, lordship, mastership, mastery, obedience, potency, power, rule), преобладавам (obtain, preponderate, preside, prevail). (various references)

Chinese 

王朝. (various references)

Czech

vládnout (be in office, command, govern, rule, wield), vláda (administration, governance, government, policy, rule, sceptre, state, sway), panovat (rule), panování. (various references)

Danish

styre (administration, board of directors, control, management, platform, rule, stage). (various references)

Dutch

bewind (control, rule), bestuur (administration, board of directors, control, management, platform, rule, stage). (various references)

Esperanto

regado (control, rule). (various references)

Farsi 

حکمفرمابودن (Dominate), حکمفرماءی , حکمرانی , حکومت (Administration, Dominion, Government, Regimen, Steer), سلطنت یاحکمرانی کردن , سلطنت (Dominion, Majesty, Sultanate). (various references)

Finnish

vallita (be predominant, dominate, predominate, prevail, rule), hallitusaika (rule), hallita (control, dominate, govern, restrain, rule). (various references)

French

règne (realm). (various references)

German

Regieren (control, govern, reign over, restrain, rule, to govern, to reign), Regierung (administration, authorities, control, government, leadership, regimen, rule). (various references)

Greek 

βασιλεύω (reign over, rule), βασιλεία (kingship, regality, royalty). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממשלה (dominion, government), מלוכה (dominion, kingdom, kingship, monarchy, varnished), משטר (authority, government, polity, regime, regimen, rule), למלוך (be king, rule), לשרור (dominate, obtain, prevail, rule), שלטון המלך, אדנות (authority, lordship, mastery). (various references)

Hungarian

uralom (domain, domination, dominion, empire, hegemony, mastery, Raj, regime, rule, suzerainty, sway), uralkodás (dominance, domination, dominion, governance, mastery, predominance, rule, ruling). (various references)

Indonesian

bertahta. (various references)

Italian

regno (kingdom, realm), regnare (rule), sovrano (king, paramount, ruler, sovereign, suzerain). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

統治 (governing, government, rule), 在位 , 治世 (dynasty, peaceful times, regime, rule), 君臨 (control, dictate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざいい, くんりん (control, dictate), とうじ (at that time, chief brewer at a sake brewery, clay, formal reply, funeral address, governing, government, hot-spring cure, housekeeper, in those days, lady, libertine, matron, matter under concern, message of condolence, mistress, rule, taking the baths, winter solstice, words of condolence), とうち (equal value, equivalence, governing, government, here, placing nonessentials before essentials, rule, this place, turning upside down), ちせい (dynasty, intelligence, peaceful times, regime, rule, topography). (various references)

Korean 

지배 (Bossing, Dominant, Dominating, Domination, governance, mastering, mastery, ruling). (various references)

Manx

reilley (regulate, regulation, rule, ruling), reill (code, govern, order, policy, principle, regulate, rule). (various references)

Papiamen

teror (reign of terror, terror). (various references)

Pig Latin

eignray.(various references)

Portuguese

reino (kingdom, realm, regality, region, state). (various references)

Romanian

trona (rule), stãpânire (authority, command, continence, control, demesne, dominance, domination, dominion, empire, enjoyment, government, grip, hand, holding, keeping, lordship, masterdom, mastery, ownership, possession, rule, sovereignty, sway), stãpâni (check, command, control, dominate, get under, govern, have, hold, hold in leash, keep in, manage, own, quell, rage, restrain, ride, rule, subdue, subjugate, sway, vanquish, wield), putere (authority, backbone, capacity, degree, depth, energy, force, greatness, hold, in, jurisdiction, keenness, masterdom, mastery, measure, might, mightiness, nerve, pith, potency, power, puissance, punch, resistance, right, rulership, sap, stamina, steam, strength, sturdiness, sway, vigor, vigorousness, vigour, vim), oblãdui (administer, defend, govern, rule), imperiu (domination, dominion, empire, rule), guverna (control, govern, manage, restrain, rule, steer, sway), domnie (rule), domni (lord it, prevail, rule), dominaţie (domination, dominion, prevalence, rule), cârmui (direct, govern, guide, rule). (various references)

Russian 

господствовать (command, dominate, domineer, get the upper hand, have the upper hand, overlord, overrule, prevail). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vladavina (governance, polity, raj, regency, rule), vladati (domineer, govern, rule), vlada (administration, government, ministry, rule). (various references)

Spanish

reinar (environ, Lord, take over), reinado (empiric), prevalecer (obtain, prevail), predominio (predominance, predominancy, predomination, preponderance, prepotency, prevalence), predominar (obtain, overpower, predominate, prevail), imperar (prevail, rule), dominio (authority, command, conquest, control, despotism, domain, dominance, domination, dominion, hold, power, property, rule, strengh). (various references)

Swedish

regering (administration, government, rule), regera (control, govern, reigning, restrain, rule). (various references)

Thai

เข้าครอบงำ, รัชกาล, ครองราชย์. (various references)

Turkish

saltanat sürmek (rule, wield the scepter, wield the sceptre), saltanat dönemi, saltanat (court, grandeur, sovereignty, sultanate), hükümdarlık (court, diadem, monarchy, Raj, royalty, rulership, sovereignity, suzerainty, the crown), hüküm sürmek (be rife, command, govern, king it, prevail, sway), egemenlik (ascendancy, ascendency, dominance, domination, hegemony, imperium, mastery, Raj, rule, sovereignty, supremacy, sway), egemen olmak (dominate, have control over, possess). (various references)

Turkmen 

hцkьm sьrmeklik, hцkьm sьrmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

царювати (queen), царювання (kingship), влада (arm, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendant, attribution, authority, cathedra, command, domination, faculty, grip, gripe, hold, in, lordship, rod), панувати (dominate, overlord, overrule, wield). (various references)

Vietnamese 

triều đại (dynasty), triều uy quyền, thế lực (importance, power, sway), sự ngự trị, sự chế ngự, ảnh hưởng (effect, impact, influence, leading). (various references)

Welsh

teyrnasu, teyrnasiad. (various references)

regna, regnabant, regnabat, regnabis, regnabit, regnabo, regnabunt, regnans, regnant, regnante, regnantibus, regnare, regnarent, regnaret, regnaretis, regnasset, regnastis, regnat, regnaturus, regnaverint, regnaverit, regnaverunt, regnavit, regnavitque, regnet, regno, regnum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "reign": reigned, reigning, reignite, reignited, reignites, reigniting, reignition, reignitions, reigns. (additional references)

Words ending with "reign": antiforeign, coreign, foreign, sovereign. (additional references)

Words containing "reign": antiforeigner, coreigns, foreigner, foreigners, foreignism, foreignisms, foreignness, foreignnesses, preignition, preignitions, sovereignly, sovereigns, sovereignties, sovereignty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Reign" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Creigh, eign, eragny, Eriugena, freigang, Rabigh, raein, ragin, raigne, reagon, refig, regi, regia, regimn, regin, regir, Regny, reig, reigen, reigh, reighn, reigin, reigm, reigne, reigon, Reijo, reine, reing, reink, relig, Remigo, reuing, rexin, reyne, Rheingau, Riege, riegn, rien, Rieng, rign, ruein, teign, tredisgn, Treignac, veign. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: renig.

-1 letter: gien, girn, grin, rein, ring.

-2 letters: eng, erg, ern, gen, gie, gin, ire, reg, rei, rig, rin.

-3 letters: en, er, in, ne, re.

+1 letter: binger, cering, cringe, dinger, earing, engird, engirt, eringo, erring, finger, fringe, gainer, ginger, ginner, girned, hinger, ignore, linger, nigher, pinger, reagin, reding, regain, regina, region, reigns, renigs, resign, ringed, ringer, sering, signer, singer, winger, zinger.

+2 letters: aginner, aligner, anergia, anergic, angrier, bearing, bingers, brewing, bringer, clinger, coreign, creping, crewing, cringed, cringer, cringes, cringle, deraign, dingers, dingier, dreeing, dungier, earings, earning, earring, energid, engirds, engrail, engrain, enuring, erasing, eringos, erlking, eroding, fearing, feigner, fingers, flinger, foreign, freeing, fringed, fringes, gainers, gearing, generic, genitor, germina, gherkin, gingers, gingery, ginners, ginnier, gittern, gradine, grained, grainer, granite, grannie, gratine, greeing, greenie, greisen, gremlin, greying, grinded, grinder, grinned, grinner, gripmen, groined, gunfire, hearing, heiring, herding, herring, hingers, igniter, ignored, ignorer, ignores, impregn, ingrate, ingress, integer, jeering, jerking, jingler, kerbing, kerfing, kerning, leering, lingers, lingier, mangier, merging, metring, mingier, mingler, naggier, nargile, nearing, negroid, negroni, nerving, niggler, overing, peering, perigon, perking, perming, pingers, pirogen, preeing, preying, rangier, reading, reagins, realign, reaming, reaping, rearing, reaving, rebegin, recking, redding, redoing, redwing, reeding, reefing, reeking, reeling, reeving, reffing, regains, regimen, reginae, reginal, reginas, regions, regiven, regrind, rehinge, reigned, reining, reiving, relying, rending, renting, resigns, resting, retting, retying, reusing, revving, ringent, ringers, ringlet, searing, serging, seringa, serving, signers, signore, singers, slinger, snigger, springe, stinger, swinger, syringe, tangier, tearing, terming, tiering, tingler, treeing, trueing, veering, verging, versing, vinegar, wearing, wingers, wingier, wringed, wringer, yerking, zeroing, zingare, zingers, zingier.