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CHANCELLOR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

chancellor; premier; prime minister

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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 British cabinet minister responsible for finance

Synonyms:

Chancellor; Chancellor of the Exchequer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The Abbot only sprang forward with shining eyes; but the chancellor and the master hung upon either arm and wrested him back out of danger's way.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My aunt, looking very like an immovable Chancellor of the Exchequer, would occasionally throw in an interruption or two, as Hear! or No! or Oh! when the text seemed to require it: which was always a signal to Mr. Dick (a perfect country gentleman) to follow lustily with the same cry.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Bid the chancellor and the sub-chancellor lead in the brothers according to age, together with brother John, the accused, and brother Ambrose, the accuser.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The chancellor rose, and having slowly unrolled the parchment-scroll, proceeded to read it out in a thick and pompous voice, while a subdued rustle and movement among the brothers bespoke the interest with which they followed the proceedings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the further end, in two high chairs as large as that of the Abbot, though hardly as elaborately carved, sat the master of the novices and the chancellor, the latter a broad and portly priest, with dark mirthful eyes and a thick outgrowth of crisp black hair all round his tonsured head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)