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regina
1[ ri-jahy-nuh, -jee- ]
Regina
2[ ri-jahy-nuh ruh-jee-nuh, -jahy- ]
noun
- a city in and the capital of Saskatchewan, in the southern part, in southern Canada.
- a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “queen.”
Regina
1/ ɪˈɪə /
noun
- queen: now used chiefly in documents, inscriptions, etc Compare Rex
Regina
2/ ɪˈɪə /
noun
- a city in W Canada, capital and largest city of Saskatchewan: founded in 1882 as Pile O'Bones. Pop: 178 225 (2001)
Other Word Forms
- ·n adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of regina1
Example Sentences
As Caislyn recalled Francis' commitment to the poorest of society, many others referenced his last-known trip outside the Vatican on Maundy Thursday, when he visited prisoners at the Regina Coeli jail, as he had done many times before.
Last Thursday, as he had done many times previously and as he used to do in his native Argentina before becoming Pope, he made a visit to the Regina Coeli jail in Rome where he spent half an hour meeting prisoners and he was greeted by applause from staff and guards as he arrived in a wheelchair.
During their presentation at CinemaCon — the movie business’ trade show in Las Vegas — they elicited cheers after bringing out Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor to promote their upcoming film, “One Battle After Another.”
“I always try to get across that by the time you get to the border, it’s too late,” said Regina LaBelle of Georgetown’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, who served as acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Biden administration.
In El Salvador, “the United States now has a tropical gulag,” said Regina Bateson, a political scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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