Proconsul

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Proconsul \Pro*con"sul\, n. [L., fr. pro for + consul consul.]
     (Rom. Antiq.)
     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.


     [1913 Webster] Proconsular

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  proconsul
       n 1: an official in a modern colony who has considerable
            administrative power
       2: a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic
          and Roman Empire
       3: an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "proconsul":
     beg, beglerbeg, bey, burgrave, collector, dey, eparch, exarch,
     gauleiter, governor, governor-general, khedive,
     lieutenant governor, nabob, nawab, palatine, provincial, satrap,
     stadtholder, subahdar, tetrarch, vali, vice-king, viceroy, wali