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Proconsul

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.

n. A high administrator in one of the modern colonial empires.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In ancient Rome, an officer who discharged the duties and had, outside of Rome itself, most of the authority of a consul, without holding the office of consul.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power

n. an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul

n. a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire

Word Usage

"He said he supposed the proconsul was the friend of Caligula, who often visited Agrippa; and expressed a surmise that he himself might be exiled, or that perhaps his throat would be cut."

Hypernym

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functionary official hominoid governor

Rhyme

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