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provost
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[ˈprɒvəst], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the head of certain university colleges, especially at Oxford or Cambridge, and public schools
- (in Scotland) the civic head of some regional Scottish councils, analogous to a mayor in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland
- the head of a chapter in a cathedral
- the chief magistrate of a French or other European town
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Origin
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late Old English profost ‘head of a chapter, prior’, reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French provost, from medieval Latin propositus, synonym of Latin praepositus ‘head, chief’ (see praepostor)
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