proconsul

1. 1.

   an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power

   Broaderofficial
2. 2.

   a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire

   Broadergovernor
3. 3.

   an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul

   Broaderhominoid

   Part ofgenus Proconsul

Other forms of proconsul

plural

proconsuls·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about proconsul

What does proconsul mean?

proconsul means "an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in proconsul?

proconsul has 3 syllables: pro-con-sul. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /pɹoʊˈkɑnsəl/.

Is proconsul a common word?

proconsul is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with proconsul?

1 word rhymes with proconsul. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.