regent (n.)

  1. members of a governing board

    [ Syn: trustee ]

  2. someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch

    regent (adj.)

  1. acting or functioning as a regent or ruler; prince-regent'

The dictionary is based on the WordNet Electronic Lexical Database.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2011 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.