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BNC: 24152 COCA: 23723

viceroy

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viceroy /ˈvaɪsˌroɪ/ noun
plural viceroys
viceroy
/ˈvaɪsˌroɪ/
noun
plural viceroys
Learner's definition of VICEROY
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: a person sent by a king or queen to rule a colony in the past(旧时由国王或女王派遣管理殖民地的)总督
BNC: 24152 COCA: 23723

viceroy

noun

vice·​roy ˈvīs-ˌrȯi How to pronounce viceroy (audio)
1
: the governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of a king or sovereign
2
or viceroy butterfly : a showy North American nymphalid butterfly (Limenitis archippus) closely mimicking the monarch in coloration but smaller

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British India, advanced that date to August 1947). From Cnn Opinion, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022 In 1863, the viceroy of Egypt, Isma’il Pasha, ordered up a steel leviathan called El Mahrousa, which was the world’s longest yacht for a remarkable hundred and nineteen years, until the title was claimed by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 It was invoiced in 1912 to Kramer, Longines’ only agent in Egypt and provider to the last Khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt and Sudan, Abbas II of Egypt. Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 3 July 2022 Gandhi’s country, India, entered the European conflict in 1939 not out of any popular desire to quash Nazism but because its British viceroy had declared war on its behalf. Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022 Mexico’s love for bread dates back to the mid-1500s, when a viceroy dipped bread into hot chocolate in front of a crowd of people, reports the food website Eater. Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021 The Portuguese viceroy Alfonso de Albuquerque’s conquest of Goa, on the west coast of India, occurred nine years before the conquistador Hernán Cortés’s 1519 march on Mexico. New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021 Carlson pointed to one of the letters in a glass case that Castillo’s father, Pelayo de Yturri y Castillo, wrote to the Spanish viceroy in 1803, asking permission for his son Manuel to leave the Basque country of northern Spain and travel to Mexico. Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Oct. 2021 Is Lakshmi under the impression that the Weingartens of the Bronx were descendants of a British viceroy? David Harsanyi, National Review, 24 Aug. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle French vice-roi, from vice- + roi king, from Old French rei, roi, from Latin reg-, rex

First Known Use

1524, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of viceroy was in 1524
BNC: 24152 COCA: 23723

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