proconsular

Definition of Proconsular in English :

1. proconsular

of or relating to or typical of a proconsul

Example Sentences:
'proconsular offices'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Proconsular

noun

1.

an administrator or governor of a colony, occupied territory, or other dependency

2.

(in ancient Rome) the governor of a senatorial province

noun

a genus of African ape of the Miocene, a possible ancestor of the chimpanzee and gorilla

noun

1.

an official of ancient Rome who commanded an army in one or more of the provinces and, often, acted as a provincial governor

2.

a governing official in a present-day colony, occupied territory, etc.

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.