Regal vs. Regency — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to a monarch; royal.

A person or group selected to govern in place of a monarch or other ruler who is absent, disabled, or still in minority.

Belonging to or befitting a monarch

The period during which a regent governs.

Magnificent; splendid.

The office, area of jurisdiction, or government of regents or a regent.

Of or relating to royalty.

Regency Of, relating to, or characteristic of the style prevalent in England during the regency (1811-1820) of George, Prince of Wales (later George IV).

Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.

Regency Of, relating to, or characteristic of the style prevalent in France during the regency (1715-1723) of Philippe, Duc d'Orléans (1674-1723).

Befitting a king, or emperor.

Of or relating to a regency

(musical instruments) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times.

A system of government that substitutes for the reign of a king or queen when that king or queen becomes unable to rule.

An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called Vox Humana.

The time during which a regent is in power.

Of or pertaining to a king; kingly; royal; as, regal authority, pomp, or sway.

An administrative division ranking below a province in Indonesia.

A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, - used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.

Belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler;

Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government.

A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability.

The period of time during which a regent governs

The period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity

The office of a regent

Of or relating to a regency

Of or relating to or characteristic of the style (especially the style of furniture) favored during the Regency (1811-1820)