reign
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4.4
- noun
- /reɪn/
:
reinado
- During her reign, the country experienced significant cultural and economic growth.
- reign of terror
- a long reign
- end of a reign
Or not alive or around to watch Jordan's reign in the NBA.
- Or not alive or around to watch Jordan's reign in the NBA.
- We've seen Constantine's of fairly long reign transform the Roman Empire.
- Gavin Newsom And that's why it's time to end his reign.
- The weird things we have evidence to support that though, is that some of the lengths of reigns is really weird.
- Is M JS reign as greatest unique because there was no one close.
- And this brought in a new reign of terror as our cow and his army of foreign fighters came in and set up terror safe havens.
- And then we know what Stanley Cups leads to, which we're about to head into a four rain, a four year reign terror of Stanley Cup politics.
Examples
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The reign of the gangster Mickey Cohen in Los Angeles is at an end.
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After its forty years' reign, it has managed to maintain the party, political, and military power.
Academic text (2000) -
Which is not to say justice and peace reign on the campus.
Fiction book (1991) -
We better hurry or your reign will be over before it's begun!
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We're all sick of this reign of terror...
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There we go, Buckle guns, your reign has ended.
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This basically ended the reign of the CIA.
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Each seal contains a symbolic reference to elements from the reign of the corresponding emperor.
Academic text (2001) -
Their reign begins now.
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Though some species would linger on for millennia, the reign of the great reptiles was finally over.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
697
2.0
Control of a country by a person or group
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4.7
To have power or control over other people
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7.5
The time a leader has power over a country
Antonyms
Compounds
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9.3
A period during the French Revolution from 1793 to 1794 with mass executions and political violence
How Dominant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Reign can mean any period when someone or something is most powerful, and it comes from the Latin root reg- 'to rule'. That's why we talk about a leader's or company's reign when they 'dominate' an area or field.