PROCONSUL
Dictionary entry overview: What does proconsul mean?
• PROCONSUL (noun)
The noun PROCONSUL has 3 senses:
1. an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power
2. a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire
3. an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul
Familiarity information: PROCONSUL used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• PROCONSUL (noun)
Meaning:
An official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("proconsul" is a kind of...):
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
Meaning:
A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("proconsul" is a kind of...):
governor (the head of a state government)
Meaning:
An anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("proconsul" is a kind of...):
hominoid (a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea)
Holonyms ("proconsul" is a member of...):
genus Proconsul (genus of extinct primitive African primates of the Miocene epoch; sometimes considered a subgenus of Dryopithecus)
