different between chancellor vs governor

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman or Middle English chaunceler, chanceler, canceler (“chief administrative or executive officer of a ruler; chancellor, secretary; private secretary, scribe; Lord Chancellor of England; officer of the ruler's exchequer; a high administrative or executive officer (for example, a deputy or representative of a bishop; the head of a university)”), from Old French cancelier, chancelier (“chancellor”), from Late Latin cancell?rius (“secretary; doorkeeper, porter; usher of a court of law stationed at the bars separating the public from the judges”), from Latin cancell? (plural of cancellus (“grate; bars, barrier; railings”), diminutive of cancer (“grid; barrier”), from Proto-Italic *karkros (“enclosure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”)) + -?rius (suffix forming nouns denoting an agent of use).

The word was present as Late Old English canceler, cancheler, from Norman cancheler, but was displaced in the 13th century by the Old French and Anglo-Norman forms mentioned above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t???ns?l?/, /?t???nsl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æns?l?/, /-l?/, /?t?ænsl?/
• Hyphenation: chan?cel?lor

Noun

chancellor (plural chancellors)

1. A senior secretary or official with administrative or legal duties, sometimes in charge of some area of government such as finance or justice.
2. The head of the government in some German-speaking countries.

   Synonym: (historical) Reichskanzler
3. (Christianity) A senior record keeper of a cathedral; a senior legal officer for a bishop or diocese in charge of hearing cases involving ecclesiastical law.
4. (education) The head of a university, sometimes purely ceremonial.
5. (Britain, government) Short for Chancellor of the Exchequer.
6. (Scotland, law) The foreman of a jury.
7. (US, law) The chief judge of a court of chancery (that is, one exercising equity jurisdiction).

Alternative forms

• chanceler, chanceller, chancellour, chancelor, chancelour, chaunceler, chaunceller, chauncellor, chauncellour, chauncelor, chauncelour (all obsolete)

Coordinate terms

• (head of a university): master, mistress, president, principal, provost, rector
• (head of government in some German-speaking countries): premier, prime minister

Derived terms

• Chancellor
• chancelloress
• Chancellor of the Exchequer
• chancellorship
• Lord Chancellor

Related terms

• cancellarial, cancellarian
• chancel
• chancellery, chancellory
• chancery

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References

Further reading

• chancellor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• chancellor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• chancellor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• chancellor at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “chancellor” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

English

Alternative forms

• gouernour, gouvernor, gouvernour, governer, governour (all obsolete)
• guvnah, guvnuh (both informal)

Etymology

From Middle English governour, from Old French gouvreneur, from Latin gubernator, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kubern?t?s, “steersman, pilot, guide”), from ???????? (kuberná?, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”), of disputed origin. Doublet of gubernator.

Pronunciation

• (UK, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v(?)n?(?)/
• (US, rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v??n??/
• (US, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v?n?(?)/
• (US, rhotic, r-dissimilation) IPA^(key): /???v?n??/

Noun

governor (plural governors, feminine governess)

1. (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level division of a country.
   • 1999, Karen O'Connor, The essentials of American government: continuity and change, p 17

     Younger voters are more libertarian in political philosophy than older voters and are credited with the success of libertarian governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota

2. A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
3. A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
   • Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, www.federalreserve.gov (November 6, 2009)

     The seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

4. (informal) Father.
5. (informal) Boss, employer.
6. (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
7. (dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
8. (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.

Synonyms

• (head of a province): viceroy (of large divisions of a kingdom or empire); proconsul (of Roman regions, historical); bailiff, seneschal, intendant (of French regions, historical); tao tai (obsolete), circuit intendant, intendant, daotai (of Chinese regions, historical); provost (obsolete); gubernator (now humorous)

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Translations

Middle English

Noun

governor

1. Alternative form of governour