Usually means: Clerk of a court, official.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word prothonotary:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. prothonotary: Merriam-Webster
  2. prothonotary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prothonotary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prothonotary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Prothonotary, prothonotary: Wordnik
  6. prothonotary: Wiktionary
  7. prothonotary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. prothonotary: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. prothonotary: Dictionary.com
  10. prothonotary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Prothonotary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Prothonotary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Prothonotary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. prothonotary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. prothonotary: FreeDictionary.org
  16. prothonotary: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. prothonotary: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. prothonotary: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. prothonotary: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prothonotary)

noun:  (obsolete, historical) A chief legal clerk or notary in Roman Byzantium, and (hence) in Rome.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) One of the seven prelates, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.
noun:  A registrar or chief clerk in various courts of law, especially (US) in a county court, (Australia) in certain state Supreme Courts, (Canada) in Federal Court.
noun:  (Greek Orthodox Church, historical) The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.

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