Reginald

Full definition of Reginald

Proper noun

1. derived from a Latinized form of Reynold.
• 1865 Charles Dickens, :Reginald Wilfer is a name with rather a grand sound, suggesting on first acquaintance brasses in country churches, scrolls in stained-glass windows, and generally the De Wilfers who came over with the Conqueror. For, it is a remarkable fact in genealogy that no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. - - - He was shy, and unwilling to own to the name of Reginald, as being too aspiring and self-assertive a name. In his signature he used only the initial R., and imparted what it really stood for, to none but chosen friends, under the seal of confidence.

Usage notes

Popular in the UK in the first half of the twentieth century.

Anagrams

• dearling, dragline, inlarged, relading