noun. A person who governs, especially.

noun. The chief executive of a state in the United States.

noun. An official appointed to govern a colony or territory.

noun. A member of a governing body.

noun. The manager or administrative head of an organization, business, or institution.

noun. A military commandant.

noun. Used as a form of polite address for a man.

noun. A feedback device on a machine or engine that is used to provide automatic control, as of speed, pressure, or temperature.

noun. A steersman; a pilot.

noun. The person invested with the supreme executive power in a state or community; specifically, as a personal title, the chief magistrate of a state or province: as, the governor of Connecticut; the governor of Newfoundland. As a title, abbreviated Gov.

noun. One who is charged with the direction or control of an undertaking or institution: as, the governors of the Bank of England; the governor of a prison or hospital.

noun. A tutor; one who has the care of a young man; one who instructs a pupil and forms his manners. Compare governess, 2.

noun. A father; a master or superior; an employer; an elderly person.

noun. In machinery, a self-acting regulator which controls a supply of steam, gas, or water; especially, any device for automatically regulating the amount of power developed in a machine, as in a steamengine.

noun. See the adjectives.

noun. The regulator used in arc-lamps to control the current. See regulator.

noun. One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate.

noun. One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

noun. A pilot; a steersman.

noun. A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.

noun. a variable cut-off gear in which the governor acts in such a way as to cause the steam to be cut off from entering the cylinder at points of the stroke dependent upon the engine's speed.

noun. a governor which is operated by the action of a liquid in flowing; a cataract.

noun. The leader of a region or state that is a member of a federation or an empire. In Rome, they were endorsed by the emperor and appointed by the Senate. In the modern United States, they are elected by the people of that state.

noun. A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.

noun. 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.

noun. father.

noun. Boss, employer.

noun. the head of a state government

noun. a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)

"Governor David Paterson, happens to be a Democrat and both Black and Blind, the state's first African-American governor - and the first blind ­governor in America."

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