REGENT, one who governs a kingdom during the minority or absence of the king.
In France, the queen mother has the regency of the kingdom during the minority of the king, under the title of queen-regent.
Regent also signifies a professor of arts and sciences in a college, who has a set of pupils under his care; but here regent is generally restrained to the lower classes, as regent of rhetoric, regent of logic, &c. those of philosophy are rather called professors.