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• regina
  regina

  noun

  queen.
• Regina
  Regina

  noun

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

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

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Etymology

Origin of regina

1450–1500; late Middle English, from Latin rēgīna

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Explanation

You might know it best as a female given name, but regina is a Latin term meaning "queen." In English, it's used in specific legal, historical, and biological contexts. In constitutional monarchies like the U.K., the term regina, often capitalized or abbreviated as R, refers to the reigning monarch (if a queen is on the throne) in legal proceedings, as in a court case titled R v. Smith. (If the monarch is a king, the R stands for Rex, "king.") In older biological texts, the queen bee in a colony may be called the regina. And the term appears in scientific nomenclature, as in the North American snake genus Regina, which includes the queen snake, Regina septemvittata.

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In February, a team of scientists sent shock waves through the world of paleontology when it posited that Tyrannosaurus rex was actually three distinct species — T. rex, T. imperator and T. regina.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2022

Joining the king in the genus Tyrannosaurus would be the bulkier and older emperor, T. imperator, and the slimmer queen, T. regina.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

Earlier this year, a trio of paleontologists proposed that some of the fossils labeled T. rex are different species and should get new names—T. regina and T. imperator.

From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2022

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s skeleton, nicknamed “the Nation’s T. rex,” has been anointed the holotype for Tyrannosaurus regina.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

“The queen of the gods, Turner. Write it as though she is telling the story. This is Juno here, regina deum, line nine. Thirty minutes seems about the right amount of time.”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Librarian Regina Andrews, known for her salons, exudes the dignified air of a beloved host, vividly describing the communal groundswell every young thinker and creative then could sense happening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Brian McQuinn, the co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data and Conflict at the University of Regina told AFP it "would be folly" to discount the impact this could have in Canada.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

That might have brought us to a theoretically successful 2022 Oscars with hosts Sykes, Regina Hall and Amy Schumer.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

“It’s a hard no,” said Regina Levy, a 41-year-old attorney in Westchester, N.Y.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Rosa and Regina came out of the cellar, shook their dusty clothes in our hallway until we sneezed, and slammed the door.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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