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VICEREINE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign

Synonyms:

vicereine; viceroy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

Sense 2

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)

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