regina

[ri-jahy-nuh, -jee-] /rɪˈdʒaɪ nə, -ˈdʒi-/
noun
1.
queen.
2.
(usually initial capital letter) the official title of a queen:
Elizabeth Regina.
Origin
1425-75; late Middle English < Latin rēgīna
Related forms
reginal, adjective

Regina

[ri-jahy-nuh for 1; ruh-jee-nuh, -jahy- for 2] /rɪˈdʒaɪ nə for 1; rəˈdʒi nə, -ˈdʒaɪ- for 2/
noun
1.
a city in and the capital of Saskatchewan, in the S part, in S Canada.
2.
a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “queen.”.

Saskatchewan

[sa-skach-uh-won, -wuh n] /sæˈskætʃ əˌwɒn, -wən/
noun
1.
a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km).
Capital: Regina.
2.
a river in SW Canada, flowing E to Lake Winnipeg: formed by the junction of the North Saskatchewan and South Saskatchewan rivers. 1205 miles (1940 km) long.
British Dictionary definitions for regina

Regina1

/rɪˈdʒaɪnə/
noun
1.
queen: now used chiefly in documents, inscriptions, etc Compare Rex

Regina2

/rɪˈdʒaɪnə/
noun
1.
a city in W Canada, capital and largest city of Saskatchewan: founded in 1882 as Pile O'Bones. Pop: 178 225 (2001)

Saskatchewan

/sæsˈkætʃɪwən/
noun
1.
a province of W Canada: consists of part of the Canadian Shield in the north and open prairie in the south; economy based chiefly on agriculture and mineral resources. Capital: Regina. Pop: 995 391 (2004 est). Area: 651 900 sq km (251 700 sq miles) Abbreviation Sask, SK
2.
a river in W Canada, formed by the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers: flows east to Lake Winnipeg. Length: 596 km (370 miles)
Word Origin and History for regina

Regina

fem. proper name, from Latin, literally "queen;" related to rex (genitive regis) "king" (see regal). Cf. Sanskrit rajni "queen," Welsh rhyain "maiden, virgin." The city in Canada was named 1882 by the then-governor general of Canada, Marquess of Lorne, in honor of Queen Victoria.

Saskatchewan

Canadian province, named for the river running through it, from Cree kis-si-ska-tches-wani-sipi "rapid flowing river."

regina in Culture

Saskatchewan definition


Province in west-central Canada, bordered to the north by the Northwest Territories, to the east by Manitoba, to the south by North Dakota and Montana, and to the west by Alberta. Its capital and largest city is Regina.

Note: Some of the world's largest wheat fields grow on Saskatchewan's vast unbroken prairie.
regina in Technology
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A widely-used open source Rexx interpreter by Anders Christensen , ported to many platforms including Unix, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2. Regina is currently maintained by Mark Hessling.
Regina conforms almost completely to Rexx Language Level 4.00, with some Rexx SAA API extensions. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Latest version: 2.0+, as of 2001-03-30.
Home {https://lightlink.com/hessling/).
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.rexx.
(2001-03-30)