Synonyms for governor
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Proconsul — the chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country
proconsul, ruler, intendant, vice-roi, circuit intendant, bailiff, seneschal, provost dated, tao tai dated, gubernator rare
2. Comptroller
comptroller, superintendent, chief, executive, father, director, manager, old man, boss, master, dad, controller, guardian, regulator, daddy informal, sachem US, pap
Other
authority figure, sanjak bey, speed limiter, nabob, mutasarrif rare, atabeg rare
Definitions
- n. 1
The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
- n. 2
A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
Related words
- Word family
- governoress gov govern government governorate governor-general
- Phrases
- governor's plum governor plum
Forms
- Plural
- governors → proconsuls, rulers, intendants, vice-rois…
Example sentences
- ruler The peasants rose up in rebellion against the ruler.
- superintendent You must be referring to superintendent Yazid.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| governor | steady | |
| ruler | rising | |
| intendant | falling | |
| proconsul | rising | |
| superintendent | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- dad1, pap1
- 4 letters
- boss1
- 5 letters
- chief1, daddy2, ruler2, nabob2
- 6 letters
- father2, master2, sachem, atabeg
- 7 letters
- manager3, provost2, bailiff2
- 8 letters
- director3, guardian3
- 9 letters
- executive4, regulator4, intendant, proconsul3, seneschal
- 10 letters
- controller3, gubernator, mutasarrif
- 11 letters
- comptroller3
- 14 letters
- superintendent5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (daddy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- gouverneur
- Italiano
- governatore
- Deutsch
- Gouverneur