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Plural of governor

regular plural

The plural of governor is governors.

Forms of governor

Singulargovernor /ˈɡʌv(ə)nə/
Pluralgovernors
Countablecountable

Governors in a sentence

  • But gender is a factor both candidates will navigate in a country that has elected just 51 female state governors in its history.2025 June 17, Eva McKend, “Virginia will elect its first female governor this fall. Neither candidate is talking much about it”, in CNN...
  • Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.From the entry lusitanize
  • Climate Alliance, a network of governors committed to reducing domestic emissions.2024 November 29, Grace Ashford, “Will Hochul’s Political Concerns Put New York’s Climate Goals at Risk?”, in The New York Times. From the entry Hochul
  • If need be, the governors purchased foodstuffs for their amanaty out of their town budgets.2005, Alexandra M. Haugh, Indigenous Political Culture and Eurasian Empire: Russia in Siberia in the Seventeenth Century (unpublished…. From the entry amanaty
  • These were men of the aristocracy, from whom the Makedonians drew their generals and governors.1992, Waldemar Heckel, “[The 'New Men'] Hephaistion: omnium amicorum carissimus”, in The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire, London; New York…. From the entry Makedonian

Meaning of governor

  1. noun The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
  2. noun A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
  3. noun A member of a decision-making body (such as a committee) for a larger organization or entity (including some public agencies), similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.

Full definition of governor

Questions about the plural of governor

What is the plural of governor?
The plural of governor is governors.
Is governor countable?
Governor is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: governor (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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