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viceroy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Viceroy \Vice"roy\, n. [F. vice-roi; pref. vice- in the place of (L. vice) + roi a king, L. rex. See Vice, prep. and Royal.]
The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.
(Zo["o]l.) A large and handsome American butterfly ( Basilarchia archippus syn. Limenitis archippus). Its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larv[ae] feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch. 2 An orange and black North American butterfly ((taxlink Limenitis archippus species noshow=1)), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.
WordNet
n. governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign [syn: vicereine]
showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller [syn: Limenitis archippus]
Wikipedia
A viceroy is a regal official who runs a country, colony, city, province, or sub-national or state, in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roi, meaning "king". A viceroy's territory may be called a viceroyalty, though this term is not always applied. The adjectival form is viceregal, less often viceroyal. The term vicereine is sometimes used to indicate a female viceroy suo jure, although viceroy can serve as a gender-neutral term. Vicereine is more commonly used to indicate a viceroy's wife.
The viceroy (Limenitis archippus) is a North American butterfly that ranges through most of the contiguous United States as well as parts of Canada and Mexico. The westernmost portion of its range extends from the Northwest Territories along the eastern edges of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada mountains, southwards into central Mexico. Its easternmost range extends along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America from Nova Scotia into Texas.
The viceroy was named the state butterfly of Kentucky in 1990.
Viceroy is a low-cost cigarette brand owned by London-based British American Tobacco. Viceroy cigarettes are made by Brown & Williamson (B&W), an American tobacco company which was bought by British American Tobacco (BAT) in 1927. Viceroys were first produced in 1936; the first filter cigarettes with a cork tip.
Viceroy may refer to:
- Viceroy, Saskatchewan, small hamlet located in Saskatchewan, Canada
- Viceroy, gubernatorial title for the monarch-appointed governor of a country or province
- Viceroy (butterfly), a North American butterfly
- Viceroy (cigarette), a cigarette brand
- The Viceroys, a Jamaican rocksteady/reggae vocal trio
- Icon Brickell, skyscraper complex in Miami, Florida, USA has a building known as Viceroy.
- Vauxhall Viceroy, a large car sold in the United Kingdom
- Viceroy of Kush, an official serving the Pharaoh of Egypt
- I Vicerè, 1894 novel by Federico De Roberto, translated to English as The Viceroys
- I Vicerè (film), 2007 film based on the De Roberto novel by director Roberto Faenza
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, a British destroyer in commission in the Royal Navy from 1918 until the mid-1930s and from 1941 to 1945
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, a British ocean liner and later troop transport in service from 1929 until sunk in 1942
Usage examples of "viceroy".
Once a eunuch surgeon to the harem of Sultan Mehomet, the viceroy of Egypt, Masri had served Amir Bedawi, Lionel Templeton faithfully from the day Lionel had freed him.
Surajah Dowlat, and, with the same ceremony, to substitute Ali Khan in his room, who was publicly acknowledged by the people as suba, or viceroy, of the provinces of Bengal, Banar, and Orixa.
Those cities, then, were long the destinations of the treasure-fleet, and accordingly it is at Bonanza that the Viceroy, at the beginning of his reign, laid the cornerstone of a palace to receive the proceeds of his relentless, corrupt, and gluttonous pillagings.
This order undoubtedly came from the viceroy, and everybody knew the reason.
I need now merely say that I had the good fortune at the time to find an apparently happy confirmation of what was stated in the map in a little printed work which described the discoverer as a learned cosmographer and skilful captain, who had received a special commission from the Viceroy at Goa to make explorations for gold-mines, and at the same time to verify the descriptions of the southern islands.
Australia, by a man whose contemporary history described as a distinguished cosmographer, and at a time which corresponded with the periods of office of the two viceroys mentioned respectively in the printed document quoted, and in the map.
When he had gone away my neighbour seemed inclined to be more communicative, and informed me that Nina was a dancer whom the Count de Ricla, the Viceroy of Barcelona, was keeping for some weeks at Valentia, till he could get her back to Barcelona, whence the bishop of the diocese had expelled her on account of the scandals to which she gave rise.
I could not understand how a viceroy could have fallen in love with her to such an extent.
On the 26th of December the Abbe Marquisio, the envoy of the Duke of Modena, asked the viceroy, before a considerable number of people, if he could pay me a visit, to give me a letter which he could place in no hands but mine.
There could be no doubt that I had been arrested by the despotic viceroy, who had been persuaded by Nina that I was her favoured lover.
So Mellish went up to Simla, with eighty-four pounds of Fumigatory in his trunk, to speak to the Viceroy and to show him the merits of the invention.
Once more we felt truly grateful to the Viceroy and the Prince who so promptly and so considerately had supplied all our wants, and whose kindness would convert our southern cruise into a holiday gite, without the imminent deadly risk of a burst boiler.
Possibly Passano might have told the viceroy that any passports of mine were bound to be false, as I should have had to obtain the signature of my own ambassador.
She had carte blanche with a banker, and kept up a great state, affirming herself to be with child by the Viceroy of Catalonia, and demanding the honours which would be given to a queen who had graciously chosen Bologna as the place of her confinement.
Whenever the viceroy visited her she wearied him with praise of your gallantry, your wit, your noble actions, comparing you with the Spaniards, greatly to their disadvantage.