VICEROY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viceroy mean? 

• VICEROY (noun)
  The noun VICEROY has 2 senses:

1. governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign

2. showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller

  Familiarity information: VICEROY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VICEROY (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("viceroy" is a kind of...):

governor (the head of a state government)

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

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)

Derivation:

viceregal (of or relating to a viceroy)

viceroyship (the position of viceroy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Limenitis archippus; viceroy

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

brush-footed butterfly; four-footed butterfly; nymphalid; nymphalid butterfly (medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and much-reduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast)

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

genus Limenitis; Limenitis (mainly dark northern butterflies with white wing bars)

 Context examples 

And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it, by a viceroy; of destroying the Big-endian exiles, and compelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.

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

So it was with the CASSANDRA, as brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England took the viceroy of the Indies; so it was with the old WALRUS, Flint's old ship, as I've seen amuck with the red blood and fit to sink with gold.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

That the said Quinbus Flestrin, having brought the imperial fleet of Blefuscu into the royal port, and being afterwards commanded by his imperial majesty to seize all the other ships of the said empire of Blefuscu, and reduce that empire to a province, to be governed by a viceroy from hence, and to destroy and put to death, not only all the Big-endian exiles, but likewise all the people of that empire who would not immediately forsake the Big-endian heresy, he, the said Flestrin, like a false traitor against his most auspicious, serene, imperial majesty, did petition to be excused from the said service, upon pretence of unwillingness to force the consciences, or destroy the liberties and lives of an innocent people.

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

It's there she learned 'Pieces of eight,' and little wonder; three hundred and fifty thousand of 'em, Hawkins! She was at the boarding of the viceroy of the Indies out of Goa, she was; and to look at her you would think she was a babby. But you smelt powder—didn't you, cap'n?

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)