governor
Meaning of governor
noun
- The chief executive officer of a first-level division of a country.
- A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
- A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
- Father.
- Boss, employer, similar to gaffer.
- Term of address to a man; guv'nor.
- (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
- One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
- A pilot; a steersman.
Information about governor
- It is a name.
- The plural form of governor is: governors.
- Languages in which governor is used:
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Hyphenation of governor
gov-er-nor
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- governor is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
governor synonyms
Meaning regulator:
Meaning :
bailiff, gubernator, intendant, proconsul, provost, seneschal, viceroy
Translation of governor
- French: gouverneur
- German: Gouverneur
- Italian: governatore
- Spanish: gobernador, gobernadora
Words that rhyme with governor
Governor, Vernor, archgovernor, cogovernor, mainpernor, misgovernor, pernor, subgovernor, undergovernor, turnor
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