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vice-roi

vice-roi is the alternative form of viceroy.

Meaning of viceroy

Noun

viceroy (plural viceroys)

  1. One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.
    • Ireland was governed by a Viceroy representing the English King/Queen when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
    Synonyms:
    vicar, provost
  2. A zongdu.
  3. An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.

Forms of vice-roi

pluralvice-rois

Origin of vice-roi

From French vice-roi.

Questions about vice-roi

What is vice-roi the alternative form of?
Vice-roi is the alternative form of viceroy.

Words near vice-roi in the dictionary

  1. Vice-Presidents-elect
  2. vice-principal
  3. vice-principals
  4. vice-reine
  5. vice-reines
  6. vice-roi
  7. vice-rois
  8. vice-signalling
  9. vice-skip
  10. vice-skips
  11. vice-versa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vice-roi (page history and authors); viceroy (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.

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