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What is a viceroy?

What is a viceroy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.
  2. A zongdu.
  3. An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.
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Nawab, English nabob, deputy ruler, or viceroy, under the Mughal rule of India.
The viceroy pursued, and towards evening came up with the sternmost, having left his own fleet far behind.
Bosnia Herzegovina, for example, while it has a seat at the United Nations, is also administered by an international viceroy, Lord Paddy Ashdown.
In Egypt the Ottoman viceroy Muḥammad ʿAlī was laying the foundations for independent power.
The following May he succeeded Badoglio as governor-general and viceroy in Abyssinia.
He is to be shadowed by a Russian-appointed viceroy and has little control over the armed forces.

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