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provost

[ proh-vohst, prov-uhstin military usage, proh-voh ]

noun

  1. a person appointed to superintend or preside.
  2. an administrative officer in any of various colleges and universities who holds high rank and is concerned with the curriculum, faculty appointments, etc.
  3. Ecclesiastical. the chief dignitary of a cathedral or collegiate church.
  4. the steward or bailiff of a medieval manor or an officer of a medieval administrative district.
  5. the mayor of a municipality in Scotland.
  6. Obsolete. a prison warden.


provost

/ ˈprɒvəst /

noun

  1. an appointed person who superintends or presides
  2. the head of certain university colleges or schools
  3. (in Scotland) the chairman and civic head of certain district councils or (formerly) of a burgh council Compare convener
  4. Church of England the senior dignitary of one of the more recent cathedral foundations
  5. RC Church
    1. the head of a cathedral chapter in England and some other countries
    2. (formerly) the member of a monastic community second in authority under the abbot
  6. (in medieval times) an overseer, steward, or bailiff in a manor
  7. obsolete.
    a prison warder
  8. prəˈvəʊ military a military policeman


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  • provost·ship noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of provost1

before 900; Middle English; Old English profost < Medieval Latin prōpositus abbot, prior, provost, literally, (one) placed before, Latin: past participle of prōpōnere. See pro- 1, posit

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Word History and Origins

Origin of provost1

Old English profost, from Medieval Latin prōpositus placed at the head (of), from Latin praepōnere to place first, from prae- before + pōnere to put

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Example Sentences

The filmmakers are my goddaughter Sara Ossana and her husband Mathew Provost.

Previously, she was the president of the University of Pennsylvania and provost of Yale University.

As Stanford provost, Rice dismissed, on budgetary grounds, a popular Latina administrator.

Vice Provost for Research Dr. David Korn, who is leading efforts to craft the policy, says it will cover all university faculty.

The UCL president and provost, Professor Malcolm Grant is “deeply saddened by these events.”

Delgado, the editor, after repeated warnings from the Provost-Marshal, was at length arrested.

The rector of Saint-Pierre-aux-Boeufs relies upon him; he is the provost of that quarter.

The provost and his men bade him sit upon a bench, and the man then bound his feet as he had before bound his hands.

"Send up the provost brigade," was Grant's despatch sent to City Point.

Provost General Macy, of Massachusetts, established a guard to prevent depredations and to save the army from demoralization.

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