| Noun | 1. | regent - members of a governing board Synonyms: trustee |
| 2. | regent - someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch | |
| Adj. | 1. | regent - acting or functioning as a regent or ruler; "prince-regent" |
REGENT. 1. A ruler, a governor. The term is usually applied to one who
governs a regency, or rules in the place of another.
2. In the canon law, it signifies a master or professor of a college.
Dict. du Dr. Call. h.t. 3. It sometimes means simply a ruler, director, or
superintendent; as, in New York, where the board who have the
superintendence of all the colleges, academies and schools, are called the
regents of the University of the state of New York.