Interregnum
- n. Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted.
- n. The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.