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proconsul
1[ proh-kon-suhl ]
noun
- Roman History. an official, usually a former consul, who acted as governor or military commander of a province, and who had powers similar to those of a consul.
- any appointed administrator over a dependency or an occupied area.
Proconsul
2[ proh-kon-suhl ]
noun
- an African subgenus of Dryopithecus that lived 17–20 million years ago and is possibly ancestral to modern hominoids.
proconsul
/ prəʊˈkɒnsjʊlə; prəʊˈkɒnsəl /
noun
- an administrator or governor of a colony, occupied territory, or other dependency
- (in ancient Rome) the governor of a senatorial province
Derived Forms
- proconsular, adjective
- ˈDzԲܱٱ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·Dzs· adjective
- ·Dzs··ly adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of proconsul1
Origin of proconsul2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of proconsul1
Example Sentences
Mr. Bushnell remained in Panama until his retirement in 1992, retaining a role that a Los Angeles Times reporter described as “the closest thing the United States has to a proconsul.”
To some locals, it was a caricature of a colonial proconsul inspecting his troops.
Conference tributes came also from Yale alumnus L. Paul Bremer III, the former American proconsul of Iraq's Green Zone in 2003; from former U.S.
But she has also fallen in love with the proconsul Pollione and is about to run off with him to Rome when she learns that he has secretly fathered two children by Norma.
Olympia and her brother Nicanor, a Roman proconsul, are dealing with this pesky sectarian cult following some Jewish prophet murdered in Jerusalem.
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