Definitions of governor

1. One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.

2. One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

3. A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.

4. The chief executive of a state; one who is clothed with great legal authority; chief ruler; a mechanical device for regulating the speed of an engine.

5. Governorship.

6. The chief executive officer of a State of the American Union: a ruler: one invested with supreme authority: a tutor: ( machinery) a regulator, or contrivance for maintaining uniform velocity with a varying resistance: ( B.) a pilot.

7. Chief magistrate; ruler.

8. One invested with supreme authority; a ruler; a tutor; a pilot; a pair of heavy balls connected with machinery, and designed to equalize the speed of steam- engines by operating on the throttle- valve of the engine.

9. One who rules or directs; one who is invested with supreme authority; a ruler; a tutor; in a machine, a contrivance for maintaining a uniform velocity with varying resistance; a regulator.