governor-general

See also: governor general and Governor General

English

Alternative forms

• governor general

Noun

governor-general (plural governors-general)

1. (UK) An official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative.
   • 1940, Abani Bhushan Rudra, The Viceroy and Governor-General of India‎^[1], page xi:

     It is a historical and analytical study of the position of Viceroy and Governor-General in the Indian constitutional system.

   • 1997, New Zealand Law Journal, page 217:

     The vulnerability of the Governor-General should not be overstated.

   • 2003, The Far East and Australasia 2003, Europa Publications, page 122,

     The legislative power of the Commonwealth of Australia is vested in a Federal Parliament, consisting of HM the Queen (represented by the Governor-General), a Senate, and a House of Representatives.

2. An official in a similar position in other countries.

   Nikolai Bobrikov served as governor-general of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1898 until his untimely death in 1904.

   • 1901, Puerto Rico Governor, Annual Report‎^[2], page 311:

     […] the proper warrants thereon shall be issued by the auditor and countersigned by the governor-general.

   • 1904, C. D. Tenney, “俄屬 [RUSSIA IN ASIA]”, in Geography of Asia‎^[3], New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 36:

     The Governor-General of Amur resides at Khabarovka (哈巴羅甫喀，即，伯利), in the Primorsk Province (東海濱省).

   • 1996, Greg Bankoff, Crime, Society, and the State in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines‎^[4], page 105:

     A real acuerdo (decision reached by a full session of the high court presided over by the governor-general) gradually came to have the force of law in the form of administrative ordinances embracing a wide range of subjects.

   • 2007, Taiwan under Japanese Rule, 1895—1945, Murray A. Rubinstein (editor), Taiwan: A New History, page 222,

     In the meantime the Taiwan governors-general were gradually brought under closer supervision of the home government in Tokyo.

3. A zongdu.

Synonyms

• (abbreviation): GG, G-G, G.G., G.-G., G. G.

Translations

commonwealth official

• Bulgarian: генерал-губернатор m (general-gubernator)
• Catalan: governador general m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總督 / 总督 (zh) (zǒngdū)

• Czech: generální guvernér m
• Danish: generalguvernør c
• Dutch: gouverneur-generaal (nl) m
• Finnish: kenraalikuvernööri (fi)
• French: gouverneur général (fr) m, gouverneure générale (fr) f
• Georgian: გენერალ-გუბერნატორი (general-gubernaṭori)
• German: Generalgouverneur (de) m
• Greek: γενικός κυβερνήτης m (genikós kyvernítis)
• Hungarian: főkormányzó (hu)
• Italian: governatore generale m
• Japanese: 総督 (ja) (そうとく, sōtoku)
• Khmer: អគ្គទេសាភិបាល (a’kea’ teesaapʰi’baal)
• Korean: 총독 (chongdok)
• Malay: gabenor jeneral
• Maltese: Gvernatur Ġenerali
• Maori: kāwana-tianara
• Norman: gouvèrneux-général m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: generalguvernør m

  Nynorsk: generalguvernør m

• Polish: gubernator generalny m, generalny gubernator m
• Portuguese: governador-geral m
• Romanian: guvernator general m
• Russian: генера́л-губерна́тор (ru) m (generál-gubernátor)
• Slovak: generálny guvernér m
• Spanish: gobernador general
• Swedish: generalguvernör (sv) c
• Ukrainian: генера́л-губерна́тор m (henerál-hubernátor)
• Vietnamese: tổng đốc (vi)

similar official in other countries

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總督 / 总督 (zh) (zǒngdū)

• Finnish: kenraalikuvernööri (fi)
• Georgian: გენერალ-გუბერნატორი (general-gubernaṭori)
• German: Generalgouverneur (de) m
• Japanese: 総督 (ja) (そうとく, sōtoku)
• Khmer: អគ្គទេសាភិបាល (a’kea’ teesaapʰi’baal)
• Korean: 총독 (chongdok)
• Portuguese: governador-geral m
• Russian: генера́л-губерна́тор (ru) m (generál-gubernátor)
• Spanish: gobernador general m
• Vietnamese: tổng đốc (vi)

zongdu — see zongdu

See also

• Government House
• Lord-Lieutenant
• viceroy