regina

¹ American  

[ri-jahy-nuh, -jee-] / rɪˈdʒaɪ nə, -ˈdʒi- /

noun

1. queen.

2. (usually initial capital letter)  the official title of a queen.

   Elizabeth Regina.

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Regina ² American  

[ri-jahy-nuh, ruh-jee-nuh, -jahy-] / rɪˈdʒaɪ nə, rəˈdʒi nə, -ˈdʒaɪ- /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Saskatchewan, in the southern part, in southern Canada.

2. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “queen.”

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Regina ¹ British  

/ rɪˈdʒaɪnə /

noun

1. queen: now used chiefly in documents, inscriptions, etc Compare Rex

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Regina ² British  

/ rɪˈdʒaɪnə /

noun

1. a city in W Canada, capital and largest city of Saskatchewan: founded in 1882 as Pile O'Bones. Pop: 178 225 (2001)

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Other Word Forms

• reginal adjective

Etymology

Origin of regina

1450–1500; late Middle English, from Latin rēgīna

Example Sentences

Hugely successful stints at small college programs Salve Regina and Assumption led Chesney to Holy Cross, where he guided the Crusaders to five consecutive Patriot League championships and four appearances in the FCS playoffs, including their first trip to the quarterfinals in 40 years.

From Los Angeles Times

Sister Bernadette, 88, Sister Regina, who is 86 and 82-year-old Sister Rita are the last three nuns at the Kloster Goldenstein convent in Elsbethen, just outside Salzburg.

From BBC

Sister Regina arrived at the convent in 1958 and Sister Rita in 1962.

From BBC

"Our Doctoral Network is about shaping the next generation of scientists and innovators in photonics," says Dr. Regina Gumenyuk, Project Coordinator at Tampere University.

From Science Daily

As an MIT computer-science professor, Regina Barzilay was used to living on the bleeding edge of innovation, teaching computers to understand words in the nascent field of natural language processing.

From MarketWatch

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