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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reign
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a king rules/reigns (=is in charge of a country)
▪ How could a Christian king rule if he was banned from the Church?
a queen rules/reigns (=is in charge of a country)
▪ Queen Victoria reigned for over 60 years.
chaos reigns (=it happens)
▪ Everyone was trying to talk at once and for a while chaos reigned.
optimism prevails/reigns (=optimism is the strongest feeling)
▪ Despite the crisis, optimism prevailed.
peace reignsliterary (= there is peace in a place)
▪ Peace and tranquillity reign in the well-kept grounds.
reigns supreme (=is the most important thing)
▪ a country where the car reigns supreme
the defending/reigning champion (=the present one)
▪ Cheah defeated the defending champion in the National Grand Prix.
the reign of Queen Elizabeth/Victoria etc (=when Elizabeth etc was queen)
▪ She was born in the reign of Queen Victoria.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Important reforms were initiated during the reign of Nicholas II.
▪ James ended Woodson's six-year reign as driving champion last night.
▪ the reign of Henry VIII
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A higher synthesis, one ushering in a new reign of peace and harmony, under a benign and ever just science.
▪ But he will be given free reign over the selection and training of his team.
▪ In one significant way, it is true, the reign of Joseph marked a distinct break with the past.
▪ It was a struggle which came to a head in the reign of Edward the Confessor, which began in 1042.
▪ One explanation, at least, can be dismissed: Gloucester was not reacting against his position in the previous reign.
▪ That's the view of the man who signed many of the cheques during Souness's reign at Rangers.
▪ They say that relics of Hitler's reign should be destroyed, not sold for profit.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
over
▪ Nature has been banished, technology and its concomitant values reign over a harshly masculine world.
▪ But confusion reigned over the idea of the menstrual cycle.
▪ And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
▪ Paranoia, greed and hysteria reign over scientific facts and compassion.
▪ Who had reigned over the Mercians in the period before 633/4 is unknown.
■ NOUN
champion
▪ She is also the reigning champion, having won four consecutive games.
confusion
▪ This last point is where much of the confusion currently reigns.
▪ A sometimes-creative confusion reigns at the teams-of-teams level.
▪ She screamed, but it had little effect, just added to the confusion that reigned in the room.
▪ And it was true, as Christians never tired of pointing out, that a painful spiritual confusion reigned.
▪ But confusion reigned over the idea of the menstrual cycle.
▪ Total confusion reigns supreme, and an atmosphere close to mass hysteria ensues.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hyperinflation reigned in Argentina during the 1980s.
▪ King George VI reigned from 1936 to 1952.
▪ Penda was king from 633 to 655, but it is not known who had reigned over the Mercians in the period before.
▪ Robert II reigned for 19 years and died in Dundonald Castle on 13th May, 1390.
▪ The last Moorish king reigned there until 1492.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And it is not only in Washington that this belief reigns supreme.
▪ For he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet.
▪ If he died on 14 December 705 he would have reigned a full twenty years and probably several months as well.
▪ In the cities and towns now, a hideous vulgarity reigned.
▪ Isolationism reigned in the Congress, reflecting a national mood.
▪ Similar panic was reigning in the kitchens.
▪ The meritocracy that reigned among students thus functioned hardly at all within the faculty.
▪ The wide-cut style still reigns supreme over slimmer styles, and are easier to wear.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reign

Reign \Reign\ (r?n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reigned (r?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reigning.] [OE. regnen, reinen, OF. regner, F. r['e]gner, fr. L. regnare, fr. regnum. See Reign, n.]

  1. To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.
    --Chaucer.

    We will not have this man to reign over us.
    --Luke xix. 14.

    Shall Banquo's issue ever Reign in this kingdom?
    --Shak.

  2. Hence, to be predominant; to prevail. ``Pestilent diseases which commonly reign in summer.''
    --Bacon.

  3. To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.

    Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body.
    --Rom. vi. 12.

    Syn: To rule; govern; direct; control; prevail.

Reign

Reign \Reign\ (r[=a]n), n. [OE. regne, OF. reigne, regne, F. r[`e]gne, fr. L. regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regal, Regimen.]

  1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.

    He who like a father held his reign.
    --Pope.

    Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean, and deep hell beneath.
    --Prior.

  2. The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

    [God] him bereft the regne that he had.
    --Chaucer.

  3. The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reign

early 13c., "kingdom," from Old French reigne "kingdom, land, country" (Modern French règne), from Latin regnum "kingship, dominion, rule, realm," related to regere (see regal). Meaning "period of rule" first recorded mid-14c.

reign

"to hold or exercise sovereign power," late 13c., from Old French regner "rule, reign" (12c.), from Latin regnare "have royal power, be king, rule, reign," from regnum (see reign (n.)). Related: Reigned; reigning; regnal.

Wiktionary
reign

n. 1 The exercise of sovereign power. 2 The period during which a monarch rules. 3 The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled. vb. (context intransitive English) To exercise sovereign power, or to rule as a monarch

WordNet
reign
  1. n. a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful; "he was helpless under the reign of his egotism"

  2. the period during which a monarch is sovereign; "during the reign of Henry VIII"

  3. royal authority; the dominion of a monarch [syn: sovereignty]

reign
  1. v. have sovereign power; "Henry VIII reigned for a long time"

  2. be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule, prevail]

Wikipedia
Reign

A reign is the period of a person's or dynasty's occupation of the office of monarch of a nation (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Andorra), of a people (e.g., the Franks, the Zulus) or of a spiritual community (e.g., Roman Catholicism, Tibetan Buddhism, Nizari Ismailism). In most hereditary monarchies and some elective monarchies (e.g., Holy Roman Empire) there have been no limits on the duration of a sovereign's reign or incumbency, nor is there a term of office. Thus, a reign usually lasts until the monarch dies, unless the monarchy itself is abolished or the monarch abdicates or is deposed.

In elective monarchies, there may be a fixed period of time for the duration of the monarch's tenure in office (e.g., Malaysia).

The term of a reign can be indicated with the abbreviation "r." after a sovereign's name, such as the following:

George VI, King of the United Kingdom (r. 1936–1952)
Reign (online game)

Reign is a free browser-based multiplayer online game hosted online at reign.ws. It was initially designed and developed by Ty Kauffman from April 5 to April 9, 2004. Since then, Ty, Mark Caudill and David DiBattiste have built on to the game by adding new features and improving the code. Reign was, and still is, developed using a simple text editor and Photoshop exclusively. It is a PHP / Javascript web-based strategy game that a MySQL database for data storage.

Reign (disambiguation)

A reign is the period of time a monarch rules.

Reign may also refer to:

Reign (TV series)

Reign is an American historical fantasy romance television series following the early exploits of Mary, Queen of Scots. The series, created by Stephanie SenGupta and Laurie McCarthy, airs on The CW and premiered as part of the 2013–14 American television season. The leading roles are played by a combination of Australian, Canadian, English, and New Zealand actors. On March 11, 2016, The CW renewed the series for a fourth season.

Usage examples of "reign".

The immortal productions of Virgil, Cicero, and Livy, which were accessible to the Christian Barbarians, maintained a silent intercourse between the reign of Augustus and the times of Clovis and Charlemagne.

Under the reign of Justinian, they acknowledged the god and the emperor of the Romans, and seven fortresses were built in the most accessible passages, to exclude the ambition of the Persian monarch.

Although Sapor was in the thirtieth year of his long reign, he was still in the vigor of youth, as the date of his accession, by a very strange fatality, had preceded that of his birth.

He justly observes, that in the recent changes, both religions had been alternately disgraced by the seeming acquisition of worthless proselytes, of those votaries of the reigning purple, who could pass, without a reason, and without a blush, from the church to the temple, and from the altars of Jupiter to the sacred table of the Christians.

Ever since the rash but successful enterprise of the Franks under the reign of Probus, their daring countrymen had constructed squadrons of light brigantines, in which they incessantly ravaged the provinces adjacent to the ocean.

With a similar design, to admonish kings that they are strong only in the strength of their subjects, the same Indians invented the game of chess, which was likewise introduced into Persia under the reign of Nushirvan.

I was seated, with Joscelin, at their own table, albeit far from the center where they reigned.

An ample share of their wisdom and virtue is due to a Persian vizier, who ruled the empire under the reigns of Alp Arslan and his son.

The unfinished Hassan Tower at Rabat having at one time become a place of evil resort, the reigning ameer ordered the way up to be destroyed, but it was found so hard that only the first round was cut away, and the door bricked up.

It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.

The evil fruits of his reign - evil, that is to say, from the point of view of his order, which was swept away as so much anachronistic rubbish - did not come until a hundred years later.

The second Lokman, also called the Sage, was a slave and Abyssinian negro, sold by the Israelites during the reign of David or Solomon, and who left a volume of proverbs and exempla, not fables or apologues, some of which still dwell in the public memory.

It was more agreeable to his temper, as well as to his policy, to reign under the venerable names of ancient magistracy, and artfully to collect, in his own person, all the scattered rays of civil jurisdiction.

The marriage was celebrated in all imaginable pomp, and Avenant and the Fair One with Golden Locks lived and reigned happily together all their days.

I confessed my sin with tears, and when she threatened punishment, pleaded that the offence had avenged itself heavily already,--for what worse punishment than exile from the sunlight of her presence, into the outer darkness which reigns where she is not?