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Rex

1 American  
[reks] / rɛks /

noun

  1. a male given name.

rex 2 American  
[reks, reks] / rɛks, rɛks /

noun

Latin.

plural

reges

  1. king.

Rex 3 American  
[reks] / rɛks /

noun

  1. a Belgian fascist party founded in 1935.

Rex British  
/ rɛks /

noun

  1. king: part of the official title of a king, now used chiefly in documents, legal proceedings, inscriptions on coins, etc Compare Regina 1

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Other Word Forms

  • Rexist noun

Etymology

Origin of Rex

After Christus Rex, title of a publication put out by its founders

Example Sentences

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Spear is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal with a heart of gold, and Fang’s a Tyrannosaurus rex who cares about Spear enough to refrain from eating him.

From Salon

Goitía, better known by his stage name Boston Rex, said he was determined not to use up his earnings from a tour for Spain’s large Venezuelan diaspora community.

From The Wall Street Journal

For her sophomore feature, Argentine-born artist Amalia Ulman took Chloë Sevigny, Simon Rex, Alex Wolff and Joe Apollonio to a rural town to play a crew for a Vice-style media company that mines culture for mass consumption.

From Los Angeles Times

At one point, the Colorado-born executive was an adviser to then-CEO Rex Tillerson.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We are in a place to deploy new dollars at a moment where dollars are scarce,” Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson, who serves as chair of LACAHSA’s board, said in an interview.

From Los Angeles Times

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