Noun

(en noun)

The male ruler of a barony.

A male member of the lowest rank of British nobility.

A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin.

* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,

Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.

A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

(legal, obsolete) A husband.

baron and feme: husband and wife

Noun

(en noun)

(politics) The leader of a region or state that is a member of a federation or an empire. In Rome, they were endorsed by the emperor and appointed by the Senate. In the modern United States, they are elected by the people of that state.

* 1999 , Karen O'Connor, The essentials of American government: continuity and change, p 17

Younger voters are more libertarian in political philosophy than older voters and are credited with the success of libertarian governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota

A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.

A member of a decision-making for an 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.

The seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

:: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, www.federalreserve.gov (November 6, 2009)

(informal) father.

* 1869 , Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl :

"Say 'father.' We never called him papa; and if one of my brothers had addressed him as 'governor ,' as boys do now, I really think he'd have him cut off with a shilling."

(informal) Boss, employer.

(grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.

(dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

(nautical) A pilot; a steersman.