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1. Have sovereign power
   "Henry VIII reigned for a long time"
    
2. Be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
   "Money reigns supreme here"
   - predominate, dominate, rule, prevail

1. A period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
   "he was helpless under the reign of his egotism"
    
2. The period during which a monarch is sovereign
   "during the reign of Henry VIII"
    
3. Royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
   - sovereignty

Sounds like: rain, rein

Derived forms: reigns, reigning, reigned

Type of: age, dominion, govern, historic period, period, period of time, rule, time period

Encyclopedia: Reign