viceroy

American  

[vahys-roi] / ˈvaɪs rɔɪ /

noun

1. a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign.

   the viceroy of India.

2. a brightly marked American butterfly, Limenitis archippus, closely mimicking the monarch butterfly in coloration.

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viceroy British  

/ ˈvaɪsrɔɪ /

noun

1. a governor of a colony, country, or province who acts for and rules in the name of his sovereign or government

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Other Word Forms

• viceroyship noun

Etymology

Origin of viceroy

1515–25; < Middle French, equivalent to vice- vice- + roy king < Latin rēgem, accusative of rēx

Example Sentences

“And the viceroy Mike Davis tells me — since it doesn’t actually say consecutive — that, I don’t know, maybe we do it again in ‘28?

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

Relief efforts started to be put into place by the end of 1943 with the arrival of a new viceroy, Field Marshall Lord Wavell.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2024

However, in 1810, when peninsular judges deposed the viceroy and installed their own leader in the position, creole royalists were inspired to take full control of the government.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Lord Louis Mountbatten, the recently appointed last viceroy of British India, had not yet revealed where the new borders, which created East and West Pakistan with India wedged between the two, would be.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2022

Accurately he was only regent of the Winds, viceroy of the gods.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton