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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   regent
       adj 1: acting or functioning as a regent or ruler; "prince-
              regent"
       n 1: members of a governing board [syn: regent, trustee]
       2: someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or
          minority of the country's monarch