Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to a queen; resembling a queen; queenly.
  • Upholding or advocating the power and prerogatives of a queen.

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Examples

  • Italy (northern Italy has a German-speaking minority, and Italian has radically different reginal dialects)

    Matthew Yglesias » Getting Worse 2007

  • As Victor Hanson points out in his column in today's Tribune, "responsible Democrats in national office had been convinced by Bill Clinton for eight years and George W. Bush for two that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was both a conventional and terrorist threat to the United States and its reginal allies."

    See, Kirk is not for changing course in Iraq after all Ellen Beth Gill 2007

  • We need to get left blogger interns into every congress critters office .. into every reginal office.. we need to infiltrate the system and talk at them from the inside.

    Firedoglake » I Don’t Think We’re In Kansas Anymore. . . 2006

  • My moms in conneticut or w/e cuz she just got a new job, and she'z like "reginal vice president" yea, im nort lying.

    zingerbabai Diary Entry zingerbabai 2003

  • Of the many women I have known, she was, perhaps, the least beautiful - less graceful than her I have loved most, less voluptuous than another, less reginal far than Thecla.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • Getting the United Nations together to build a reginal water desalination plant system to irrigate the region so the farmers can grow their own food and be self sufficient.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Getting the United Nations together to build a reginal water desalination plant system to irrigate the region so the farmers can grow their own food and be self sufficient.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • There are small reginal parties which survive only on parochial emotions.

    NDTV News - Top Stories 2009

  • Reportedly, Omid Kordestani, Google's senior vice-president of global sales and business development, told staff: "We believe it's now time not just to roll-out globally the best practices from the different reginal sales teams - the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific - but also to tailor our business strategies more closely to the different situations we face in different countries."

    unknown title 2009

  • There are small reginal parties which survive only on parochial emotions.

    NDTV News - Top Stories 2009

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  • At May long, when weather gets sticky,

    Canadians give hist'ry a hickey.

    For reasons doctrinal

    The fête is reginal

    But who gives a fart for old Vickie?

    May 18, 2015