governor's race

1. 1.

   a race for election to the governorship

   Synonymscampaign for governor

   Broaderpolitical campaign

Questions about governor's race

What does governor's race mean?

governor's race means "a race for election to the governorship".

What is another word for governor's race?

Close synonyms include campaign for governor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is governor's race a common word?

governor's race is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.