Usually means: Official overseeing state government operations.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. governor: Merriam-Webster
  2. governor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. governor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. governor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. governor: Vocabulary.com
  6. governor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Governor, governor: Wiktionary
  8. governor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. governor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. governor: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Governor, governor: Dictionary.com
  12. governor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Governor (Brazil), Governor (California), Governor (China), Governor (India), Governor (Japan), Governor (Michigan), Governor (Russia), Governor (Turkey), Governor (United States), Governor (device), Governor (disambiguation), Governor (singer), Governor, The Governor (British TV series), The Governor (TV series), The Governor (The Walking Dead), The Governor (UK TV series), The Governor (film), The Governor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Governor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. governor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. governor: Rhymezone
  17. governor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. governor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. governor: FreeDictionary.org
  20. governor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. governor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. governor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. Governor, Governor, governor, governor: Wordnik
  24. governor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Governor: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. governor: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Governor (United States), Governor (government): Legal dictionary
  5. governor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Governor (United States), Governor (device), Governor (government), governor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Governor: Easton Bible
  2. Governor: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. governor: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. governor: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Governor, the governor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See governorate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
noun:  A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
noun:  A member of a decision-making body (such as a committee) for a larger organization or entity (including some public agencies), similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
noun:  (informal) Father.
noun:  (informal) Boss; employer; gaffer.
noun:  (UK, informal, dated) Term of address to a man; guv'nor.
noun:  (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
noun:  (dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
noun:  (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
noun:  The title for someone who holds the post of governor.

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