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# viceroy

«viceroy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person sent by a king or queen to rule a country or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a viceroy, viceroys)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A viceroy is a person sent by a king or queen to rule a country or colony in their name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viceroy/#m1)

2) The viceroy is also the name of an orange North American butterfly that looks like the monarch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viceroy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in history lessons about empires: the Viceroy of India under British rule, Spanish viceroys in Mexico and Peru. It tells the reader that the real ruler was far away.

### examples

- The Viceroy of India lived in a huge palace in Delhi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viceroy/#x1)
- The king sent a viceroy to govern the colony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viceroy/#x2)
- Spanish viceroys ruled Mexico for nearly three hundred years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viceroy/#x3)
- Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India in 1947. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viceroy/#x4)
- The people had to obey the viceroy's orders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viceroy/#x5)
- A viceroy butterfly looks a lot like a monarch butterfly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viceroy/#x6)
- “And for that reason,” said the native officer, twirling his mustache, “your Amir whom you do not obey must come here and take orders from our Viceroy.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viceroy/#x7)

### note

Pronounced VICE-roy. «Vice» here means «in place of», as in «vice-captain»; «roy» comes from French «roi», king. Not to be confused with «vice» meaning a bad habit.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «viceroy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/viceroy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.