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Empire vs Regent - What's the difference?

empire | regent |

As a verb empire

is .

As a noun regent is

regent.

empire

English

(wikipedia empire)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
  • A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
  • A state ruled by an emperor.
  • An expansive and wealthy corporation.
    • the McDonald's fast food empire

    Related terms

    * emperor * imperial * imperium

    Derived terms

    * American Empire * British Empire * First French Empire * German Empire * Holy Roman Empire * Portuguese Empire * Roman Empire * Second French Empire * Spanish Empire * empirehood * global empire * colonial empire

    External links

    * * *

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    regent

    English

    (wikipedia regent)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
  • *1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 139:
  • *:This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.

    • Related terms

    * regimen * regiment * * region * rector * rectum * rectangle * rectilinear

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ruling; governing; regnant.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Some other active regent principle which we call the soul.
  • Exercising vicarious authority.
    • (Milton)

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    * *

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