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chancellor
noun
- Obsolete an official secretary to a nobleman or, esp., a king
- Rare the chief secretary of an embassy or consulate
- any of several high officials in the British government, sometimes with judicial powers
- the title of the president or a high executive officer in some universities
- the prime minister in certain countries
- ☆ a chief judge of a court of chancery or equity in some states of the U.S.
- R.C.Ch. the title of the priest in charge of a diocesan chancery
Related Forms:
- chancellorship noun
See chancellor in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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