proconsul

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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