Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun proconsul

3 senses of proconsul

Sense 1
proconsul -- (an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power)
       => official, functionary -- (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Sense 2
proconsul -- (a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire)
       => governor -- (the head of a state government)

Sense 3
proconsul -- (an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul)
       => hominoid -- (a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea)