CHANCELLOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chancellor mean? 

• CHANCELLOR (noun)
  The noun CHANCELLOR has 3 senses:

1. the British cabinet minister responsible for finance

2. the person who is head of government (in several countries)

3. the honorary or titular head of a university

  Familiarity information: CHANCELLOR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANCELLOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The British cabinet minister responsible for finance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Chancellor; Chancellor of the Exchequer

Hypernyms ("Chancellor" is a kind of...):

cabinet minister (a person who is a member of the cabinet)

Holonyms ("Chancellor" is a member of...):

British Cabinet (the senior ministers of the British government)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The person who is head of government (in several countries)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chancellor; premier; prime minister

Hypernyms ("chancellor" is a kind of...):

chief of state; head of state (the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chancellor"):

taoiseach (the prime minister of the Irish Republic)

Derivation:

chancellorship (the office of chancellor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The honorary or titular head of a university

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("chancellor" is a kind of...):

head; head teacher; principal; school principal (the educator who has executive authority for a school)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

chancellorship (the office of chancellor)

 Context examples 

Unfortunately our good chancellor is a little heavy-handed in these matters, and he transmitted a remark which showed that he was aware of what had been said.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is memorializing the Lord Chancellor, or the Lord Somebody or other—one of those people, at all events, who are paid to be memorialized—about his affairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Bid the sub-chancellor send out to them Thomas the lector to read unto them from the 'Gesta beati Benedicti.'

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could heartily wish a law was enacted, that every traveller, before he were permitted to publish his voyages, should be obliged to make oath before the Lord High Chancellor, that all he intended to print was absolutely true to the best of his knowledge; for then the world would no longer be deceived, as it usually is, while some writers, to make their works pass the better upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Let the sheep-skin be handed to the chancellor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, you know, Copperfield, if I was Lord Chancellor, we couldn't do this!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Art from Oxenford or from Cambridge? Hast thou a letter from the chancellor of thy college giving thee a permit to beg? Let me see thy letter.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Do I understand, my dear Mr. Traddles, that, at the expiration of that period, Mr. Micawber would be eligible as a Judge or Chancellor?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yet, thanks to our good chancellor, I am not wholly unlettered.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, for example, Mr. Traddles, said Mrs. Micawber, assuming a profound air, a judge, or even say a Chancellor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)