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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--interregnum This week's theme: Words with hidden animals. interregnum (in-tuhr-REG-nuhm) noun The period between the end of a reign and the beginning of the next; a time when there is no government. [From Latin, from inter- (between) + regnum (reign).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "In this unprecedented interregnum Tony Blair has no authority to do anything that attempts to tie the hands of his successor." Melanie Phillips; Brown's First Great Test; Daily Mail (London, UK); Jun 10, 2007. X-Bonus By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. -Charles Wadsworth

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