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PROVOST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does provost mean?
• PROVOST (noun)
The noun PROVOST has 1 sense:
1. a high-ranking university administrator
Familiarity information: PROVOST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A high-ranking university administrator
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("provost" is a kind of...):
academic administrator (an administrator in a college or university)
Context examples
Is he speaking to the Prince of England, or is it to the bourgeois provost of some half-captured town!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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