proconsul

pro·con·sul  (pr-knsl)

n.

1. A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.

2. A high administrator in one of the modern colonial empires.

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[Middle English, from Latin prcnsul, from pr cnsule, in place of the consul : pr, instead of; see pro-¹ + cnsule, ablative of cnsul, consul; see consul.]

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pro·consu·lar (-s-lr) adj.

pro·consu·late (-s-lt) n.

pro·consul·ship n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	proconsul - an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
	2.	proconsul - a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire governor - the head of a state government
	3.	proconsul - an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul hominoid - a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea genus Proconsul - genus of extinct primitive African primates of the Miocene epoch; sometimes considered a subgenus of Dryopithecus