prov|ost

prov|ost
prov|ost «PROV uhst; especially Military PROH voh», noun.
1. a high-ranking administrator in some colleges and universities: »

The title of the head of a college at Oxford depends on which college he is head of; at some colleges he is known as the Master, and at others as the Warden, the Provost... (New Yorker).

2. the head or dean of the clergymen assigned to a cathedral.
3. the chief magistrate in a Scottish town.
4. = provost marshal. (Cf. ↑provost marshal)
5. Obsolete. a sheriff.
╂[partly Old English profost; partly < Old French provost, both < Medieval Latin propositus, alteration of Latin praepositus a chief, perfect; (literally) placed in charge of; (originally) past participle of praepōnere < prae- at the head of, before + pōnere to place]

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