1. Hold royal office or be a monarch; 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. Royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
   "The king's reign lasted for five decades";
   - sovereignty
    
2. The period during which a monarch is sovereign
   "during the reign of Henry VIII"
    
3. A period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
   "he was helpless under the reign of his egotism"

Sounds like: raid, rayed, reig

Derived forms: reigned, reigning, reigns

Type of: age, dominion, govern, historic period, interact, period, period of time, raj [Asia], rule, time period, time span

Encyclopedia: Reign