English Explanatory Dictionary

regime

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Mode of rule or management.
  2. A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
  3. A period of rule.
  4. A regulated system; a regimen.
  5. A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
  6. A set of characteristics.

Pronunciation

/ɹəˈʒiːm/ /ɹeɪˈʒiːm/ /ˈɹeɪʒiːm/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-regime1.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-regime2.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-regime3.wav

Word forms

regime regimes régime

Etymology

From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.

Related words

regimen

Derived words

ancient regime antiregime collaborationist regime counterregime cryoregime disturbance regime epistemic regime exercise regime fire regime hybrid regime multiregime nanoregime old regime photoregime political regime puppet regime regime change rogue regime Zionist regime
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