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MILITARY GOVERNOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does military governor mean?
• MILITARY GOVERNOR (noun)
The noun MILITARY GOVERNOR has 1 sense:
1. the head of a government established by the military (as in a defeated country)
Familiarity information: MILITARY GOVERNOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The head of a government established by the military (as in a defeated country)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("military governor" is a kind of...):
governor (the head of a state government)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military governor"):
burgrave (the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries)
margrave (the military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany)
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