Chancellor

See also: chancellor

English

Noun

Chancellor (plural Chancellors)

1. An honorific for the head of state in various German-speaking states.
   • 2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 July 2025:

     The other option – typified by the unapologetically noncharismatic leaders of Britain and Germany, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Friedrich Merz – has been to persuade the electorate they’ll work hard to deliver sustainable policy results on issues like immigration, and above all, economic growth, in a way that tub-thumping populists simply cannot.

2. (UK) Ellipsis of Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Usage notes

• Used for anyone who has had the office of head of state, even if not currently in office.

Proper noun

Chancellor

1. A surname.
2. A hamlet in Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada, named after the Chancellor of Germany by settlers.
3. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Geneva County, Alabama.
   2. A town in Turner County, South Dakota, named for Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
   3. An unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.