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From Middle English regnen , from Old French reignier , from the Latin verb rēgnō , and the noun rēgnum . Doublet of regnum . Displaced native Old English rīċe ( “ a reign ” ) and ricsian ( “ to reign ” ) .
reign (plural reigns )
The exercise of sovereign power .
England prospered under Elizabeth I's reign .
2020 December 6, Xin Yan, “The Seemingly Impossible Is Possible”, in Minghui [1] :Throughout history, no single dictator has successfully upheld their reign forever, no matter how powerful they seemed to be.
The period during which a monarch rules .
The reign of Victoria was a long one.
The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
the exercise of sovereign power
Aghwan: 𐕞𐕡𐕀𐔼𐕆𐔴𐕚𐕒𐕡𐕎 ( üwxihesun )
Albanian: balltim m
Arabic: حُكْم (ar) m ( ḥukm ) , حُكُومَة (ar) f ( ḥukūma )
Hijazi Arabic: حُكُم m ( ḥukum )
Armenian: թագավորում (hy) ( tʻagavorum ) , թագավորություն (hy) ( tʻagavorutʻyun )
Azerbaijani: hökmranlıq (az) , padşahlıq
Belarusian: праўле́нне n ( prawljénnje ) , праўле́ньне n ( prawljénʹnje ) , кірава́нне n ( kiravánnje ) , кірава́ньне n ( kiravánʹnje ) , панава́нне n ( panavánnje ) , панава́ньне n ( panavánʹnje ) , ца́рстваванне n ( cárstvavannje ) , ца́рстваваньне n ( cárstvavanʹnje )
Bengali: শাসন (bn) ( śaśon )
Bulgarian: цару́ване (bg) n ( carúvane ) , управле́ние (bg) n ( upravlénie )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: regnat (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 統治 / 统治 (zh) ( tǒngzhì )
Czech: vláda (cs) f
Danish: styre (da) n
Dutch: troon (nl) m , bestuur (nl) n , heerschappij (nl) f
Esperanto: regado
Estonian: valitsus
Finnish: valta (fi)
French: règne (fr) m
Galician: reinado m
Georgian: მეფობა ( mepoba )
German: Herrschaft (de) f , Regentschaft f
Hebrew: מַלְכוּת (he) f ( malchút )
Hindi: शासन (hi) m ( śāsan )
Hungarian: uralom (hu)
Icelandic: stjórn f , ríkisstjórn f
Indonesian: pemerintahan (id)
Irish: réim f
Italian: regno (it) m
Japanese: 治世 (ja) ( ちせい, chisei ) , 統治 (ja) ( とうち, tōchi )
Kazakh: патшалық ( patşalyq )
Khmer: រាជ្យ (km) ( riəc )
Korean: 치세(治世) (ko) ( chise ) , 통치(統治) ( tongchi )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: فەرمان ڕەوایەتی ( ferman rewayetî )
Kyrgyz: падышалык (ky) ( padışalık )
Latgalian: vaļdeit , kienēt
Latvian: valdīšana f
Lingala: konza
Lithuanian: valdžia (lt) f
Macedonian: владеење n ( vladeenje )
Malay: pemerintahan
Norwegian:
Bokmål: maktutøvelse m , styre (no) n
Old English: rīċe n
Persian:
Iranian Persian: حُکْمْرانی ( hokmrâni ) , حُکْم ( hokm ) , حُکومَت ( hokumat )
Polish: rządy (pl) m pl , panowanie (pl) n
Portuguese: reinado (pt) m
Romanian: guvernare (ro) f
Russian: правле́ние (ru) n ( pravlénije ) , ца́рствование (ru) ( cárstvovanije ) , верхо́вная власть f ( verxóvnaja vlastʹ ) , вла́ствование (ru) n ( vlástvovanije )
Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вла̀давина f
Latin: vlàdavina (sh) f
Slovak: vláda (sk) f
Slovene: vladavina (sl) f
Spanish: reinado (es) m
Swedish: regering (sv) c , maktutövning c
Tajik: хукмронӣ ( xukmroni ) , хукм ( xukm ) , ҳукумат (tg) ( hukumat )
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: devir (tr) , hükümdarlık (tr)
Ukrainian: панува́ння n ( panuvánnja ) , царюва́ння (uk) n ( carjuvánnja ) , правлі́ння (uk) n ( pravlínnja )
Uyghur: ھۆكۈمرانلىق ( hökümranliq )
Uzbek: hukmronlik (uz) , podsholik (uz)
Vietnamese: sự trị vì (vi)
Welsh: teyrnasiad m
Yiddish: הערשאַפֿט f ( hershaft )
the period during which a monarch rules
Arabic: حُكْم (ar) m ( ḥukm )
Armenian: թագավորում (hy) ( tʻagavorum ) , թագավորություն (hy) ( tʻagavorutʻyun )
Belarusian: праўле́нне n ( prawljénnje ) , праўле́ньне n ( prawljénʹnje ) , кірава́нне n ( kiravánnje ) , кірава́ньне n ( kiravánʹnje ) , панава́нне n ( panavánnje ) , панава́ньне n ( panavánʹnje ) , ца́рстваванне n ( cárstvavannje ) , ца́рстваваньне n ( cárstvavanʹnje )
Bengali: শাসনকাল ( śaśonkal )
Bulgarian: цару́ване (bg) n ( carúvane )
Catalan: regnat (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 在位 (zh) ( zàiwèi )
Czech: panování n , vláda (cs) f
Danish: regeringstid c
Dutch: regering (nl)
Esperanto: reĝado
Finnish: hallituskausi , valta-aika
French: règne (fr) m
Galician: reinado m
German: Regentschaft f , Herrschaft (de) f
Hindi: राज्यकाल m ( rājyakāl )
Hungarian: uralom (hu)
Irish: réimeas m
Italian: regno (it) m
Japanese: 治世 (ja) ( ちせい, chisei ) , 在位 (ja) ( ざいい, zaii )
Khmer: រជ្ជកាល ( raccĕəʼkaal )
Korean: 치세(治世) (ko) ( chise ) , 통치 기간 (統治期間) ( tongchigigan ) , 재위(在位) (ko) ( jaewi )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: regjeringstid m or f
Nynorsk: regjeringstid f
Old English: rīċe n
Persian:
Iranian Persian: حُکْم ( hokm )
Polish: panowanie (pl) n
Portuguese: reinado (pt) m
Russian: правле́ние (ru) n ( pravlénije ) , ца́рствование (ru) n ( cárstvovanije )
Slovene: vladavina (sl) f
Spanish: reinado (es) m
Swedish: regering (sv) c , regeringstid (sv) c
Thai: รัชกาล (th) ( rát-chá-gaan ) , รัชสมัย (th) ( rát-chá-sà-mǎi )
Tocharian B: kṣuṃ
Turkish: devir (tr)
Ukrainian: панува́ння n ( panuvánnja ) , царюва́ння (uk) n ( carjuvánnja ) , правлі́ння (uk) n ( pravlínnja )
Vietnamese: triều đại (vi)
Welsh: teyrnasiad m
reign (third-person singular simple present reigns , present participle reigning , simple past and past participle reigned )
( intransitive ) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
He reigned in an autocratic manner.
c. 1587–1588 (date written) , [Christopher Marlowe ], Tamburlaine the Great. [ … ] The First Part [ … ] , 2nd edition, part 1, London: [ … ] [ R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, [ … ] , published 1592 , →OCLC ; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973 , →ISBN , Act I, scene ii :Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth, And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
( transitive , rare , nonstandard ) To reign over (a country)
2007 , Anna Chilewska, Writing after the gaze: the rupture of the historical [2] :The House of Piast reigned Poland from its foundation to 1385.
To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail , predominate , rule .
Silence reigned .
1936 , F.J. Thwaites , The Redemption , Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940 , page 58 :Silence reigned , broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.
2007 , Richard Bawden, “Redesigning Animal Agriculture: a Systemic Perspective”, in David L. Swain, Ed Charmley, John Steel, Shaun Coffey, editors, Redesigning Animal Agriculture: The Challenge of the 21st Century [3] , CABI, page 1 :Unfortunately – and ironically – the word ‘system’ itself is used in such a wide variety of contexts within animal science, as indeed it is in virtually every domain of human activity, that confusion reigns about what a systems-oriented research programme actually looks like and what systems-oriented animal scientists actually do.
exercise sovereign power
Aghwan: 𐕞𐕡𐕀𐔼𐕆𐔴𐕚𐕒𐕡𐕎 ( üwxihesun )
Albanian: balltoj
Arabic: حَكَمَ (ar) ( ḥakama )
Armenian: թագավորել (hy) ( tʻagavorel ) , գահակալել (hy) ( gahakalel )
Aromanian: vãsilipsescu , amirãripsescu , dumnescu
Azerbaijani: hökmranlıq etmək , səltənət sürmək
Belarusian: пра́віць impf ( právicʹ ) , панава́ць impf ( panavácʹ ) , царава́ць impf ( caravácʹ )
Bulgarian: цару́вам (bg) impf ( carúvam ) , владе́я (bg) impf ( vladéja ) , управля́вам (bg) impf ( upravljávam )
Burmese: အစိုးရ (my) ( a.cui:ra. ) , နန်းစံ (my) ( nan:cam ) , နန်းထိုင် (my) ( nan:htuing )
Catalan: regnar (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 統治 / 统治 ( tung2 zi6 )
Mandarin: 統治 / 统治 (zh) ( tǒngzhì )
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian: uruma , utawala
Czech: vládnout (cs) impf
Danish: regere (da)
Dutch: regeren (nl)
Esperanto: reĝi
Estonian: valitsema
Finnish: hallita (fi)
French: régner (fr)
Old French: regner
Galician: reinar (gl)
Georgian: მეფობა ( mepoba )
Old Georgian: სუფევა ( supeva )
German: herrschen (de) , regieren (de)
Gothic: 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽𐍉𐌽 ( þiudanōn )
Greek: βασιλεύω (el) ( vasilévo )
Ancient Greek: βασιλεύω ( basileúō )
Hebrew: מָשַׁל (he) ( mashál ) , מָלַךְ (he) ( malách )
Hindi: शासन करना ( śāsan karnā ) , राज्य करना ( rājya karnā )
Hungarian: uralkodik (hu)
Icelandic: ríkja
Indonesian: pemerintahan (id)
Italian: regnare (it)
Japanese: 統治する (ja) ( とうちする, tōchi suru )
Kazakh: патшалық ету ( patşalyq etu ) , патшалық құру ( patşalyq qūru )
Khmer: សោយរាជ្យ ( saoy riəc ) , ស្វោយរាជ្យ ( svaoy riəc ) , សោយ (km) ( saoy ) , ស្វោយ (km) ( svaoy ) , គ្រង (km) ( krɔɔng ) , គ្រងរាជសម្បត្តិ ( krɔɔng riəc sɑmbat ) , គ្រងរាជ ( krɔɔng riəc )
Korean: 통치하다 ( tongchihada )
Kyrgyz: падышалык кылуу ( padışalık kıluu )
Lao: ຄອງ (lo) ( khǭng ) , ຄອງລາດ ( khǭng lāt )
Latin: rēgnō
Latvian: valdīt
Lithuanian: valdyti
Macedonian: владее impf ( vladee )
Malay: pemerintahan
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хаанчлах (mn) ( xaančlax )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: regjere (no)
Old English: ricsian
Persian:
Iranian Persian: حُکْمْرانی کَرْدَن ( hokmrâni kardan )
Polish: panować (pl) impf , królować (pl) impf , władać (pl) impf
Portuguese: reinar (pt)
Romanian: a domni (ro)
Russian: пра́вить (ru) impf ( právitʹ ) , ца́рствовать (ru) impf ( cárstvovatʹ )
Sanskrit: राष्टि ( rāṣṭi )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вла́дати impf
Latin: vládati (sh) impf
Slovak: vládnuť impf
Slovene: vladati (sl) impf
Spanish: reinar (es)
Swedish: regera (sv) , härska (sv)
Tajik: хукмронӣ кардан ( xukmroni kardan )
Thai: ครอง (th) ( krɔɔng ) , ครองราชย์ ( krɔɔng-râat ) , ครองราชสมบัติ ( krɔɔng-râat-chá-sǒm-bàt )
Turkish: hükümdarlık etmek , hüküm sürmek (tr) , saltanat sürmek (tr)
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎍𐎋 ( mlk )
Ukrainian: панува́ти impf ( panuváty ) , царюва́ти (uk) impf ( carjuváty )
Urdu: راج کَرْنا ( rāj karnā )
Uyghur: ھۆكۈمرانلىق قىلماق ( hökümranliq qilmaq )
Uzbek: hukmronlik qilmoq , podsholik qilmoq
Vietnamese: trị vì (vi) , cai trị (vi)
be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition
be a dominant quality of a place or situation