governorship

English

Alternative forms

• governourship (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From governor +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

governorship (countable and uncountable, plural governorships)

1. The office or term of a governor; the state or condition of being a governor.
   • 1983 January 8, Howell Raines, “Politics: Hollings Hacks Away at His Rivals”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:

     He conducted what he calls “a separate but equal kind of governorship.”

Descendants

• Nigerian Pidgin: govnorship

Translations

office of governor

• Greek: αρμοστεία (el) f (armosteía)
• Nigerian Pidgin: govnorship
• Swahili: ugavana