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Proconsulate

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Noun

1. proconsulate, proconsulship

the position of proconsul

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Proconsulate

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noun
1. 
an administrator or governor of a colony, occupied territory, or other dependency
2. 
(in ancient Rome) the governor of a senatorial province

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Proconsulate

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noun
a genus of African ape of the Miocene, a possible ancestor of the chimpanzee and gorilla
noun
1. 
an official of ancient Rome who commanded an army in one or more of the provinces and, often, acted as a provincial governor
2. 
a governing official in a present-day colony, occupied territory, etc.

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Proconsulate

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n.
1. A provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
2. A high administrator in one of the modern colonial empires.

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