"governor" Definition

Definitions for the word "governor" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A pilot; a steersman.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 ruler. 2 a official governing a province, town, etc. B representative of the crown in a colony. 3 executive head of each state of the us. 4 officer commanding a fortress etc. 5 head or member of the governing body of an institution. 6 official in charge of a prison. 7 a slang one''s employer. B slang one''s father. 8 mech. Automatic regulator controlling the speed of an engine etc. governorship n.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
6. slang
a father, a master or superior person, an elder; “which way, GUV’NER, to Cheapside?”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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