Word.ws English Dictionary

Lord Provosts

Lord Provosts is the plural of Lord Provost.

Meaning of Lord Provost

Noun

Lord Provost (plural Lord Provosts or Lords Provost)

  1. The civic head of certain cities in Scotland, having a role similar to that of mayor.
    • There is growing local pressure for electrification to Gourock, and at the end of May the Lord Provost of Glasgow summoned a conference of local authorities and MPs to discuss prospects, […].1964 July, “News and Comment: Electrification to Gourock”, in Modern Railways, page 15

Questions about Lord Provosts

What is Lord Provosts the plural of?
Lord Provosts is the plural of Lord Provost.

Words near Lord Provosts in the dictionary

  1. lord paramount
  2. Lord President of the Council
  3. Lord Privy Seal
  4. lord protector
  5. Lord Provost
  6. Lord Provosts
  7. Lord rest his soul
  8. Lord Spiritual
  9. Lord willing
  10. Lord willing and the creek don't rise
  11. Lord's

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Lord Provosts (page history and authors); Lord Provost (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Lord Provosts.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lord_provosts. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.