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VICEREINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vicereine mean?
• VICEREINE (noun)
The noun VICEREINE has 2 senses:
2. governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign
Familiarity information: VICEREINE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wife of a viceroy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("vicereine" is a kind of...):
married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
vicereine; viceroy
Hypernyms ("vicereine" is a kind of...):
governor (the head of a state government)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vicereine"):
exarch (a viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire)
Khedive (one of the Turkish viceroys who ruled Egypt between 1867 and 1914)
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