regina

¹

[ri-jahy-nuh, -jee-]

noun

1. queen.

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

   Elizabeth Regina.

Regina

²

[ri-jahy-nuh, ruh-jee-nuh, -jahy-]

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.”

Regina

¹

/ rɪˈdʒaɪnə /

noun

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

Regina

²

/ 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)

Other Word Forms

• reginal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of regina¹

1450–1500; late Middle English, from Latin rēgīna

Example Sentences

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.

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

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

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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.

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Now is exactly the time to get vaccinated if you haven’t already — “especially before respiratory virus activity potentially increases later,” said Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, the Orange County health officer.

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