governor-general – English noun declension

English noun forms of governor-general

Noun: governor-general
Singulargovernor-general
Pluralgovernors-general

Sample Sentences

  • It is a historical and analytical study of the position of Viceroy and Governor-General in the Indian constitutional system. [1940, Abani Bhushan Rudra, The Viceroy and Governor-General of India, page xi:]
  • The vulnerability of the Governor-General should not be overstated. [1997, New Zealand Law Journal, page 217:]
  • 2003, The Far East and Australasia 2003, Europa Publications, page 122,
  • The legislative power of the Commonwealth of Australia is vested in a Federal Parliament, consisting of HM the Queen (represented by the Governor-General), a Senate, and a House of Representatives.
  • Nikolai Bobrikov served as governor-general of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1898 until his untimely death in 1904.
  • […]the proper warrants thereon shall be issued by the auditor and countersigned by the governor-general. [1901, Puerto Rico Governor, Annual Report, page 311:]
  • The Governor-General of Amur resides at Khabarovka (哈巴羅甫喀,即,伯利), in the Primorsk Province (東海濱省). (RUSSIA IN ASIA) [1904, C. D. Tenney, “俄屬 [RUSSIA IN ASIA]”, in Geography of Asia, New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 36:]
  • A real acuerdo (decision reached by a full session of the high court presided over by the governor-general) gradually came to have the force of law in the form of administrative ordinances embracing a wide range of subjects. [1996, Greg Bankoff, Crime, Society, and the State in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines, page 105:]
  • 2007, Taiwan under Japanese Rule, 1895—1945, Murray A. Rubinstein (editor), Taiwan: A New History, page 222,
  • In the meantime the Taiwan governors-general were gradually brought under closer supervision of the home government in Tokyo.

Etymology