Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1.
an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power;
2.
a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;
3.
an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Proconsul \Pro*con"sul\, n. [L., fr. pro for + consul consul.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without
being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander
in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been
consul.
[1913 Webster] Proconsular
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
proconsul
n 1: an official in a modern colony who has considerable
administrative power
2: a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic
and Roman Empire
3: an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "proconsul":
beg, beglerbeg, bey, burgrave, collector, dey, eparch, exarch,
gauleiter, governor, governor-general, khedive,
lieutenant governor, nabob, nawab, palatine, provincial, satrap,
stadtholder, subahdar, tetrarch, vali, vice-king, viceroy, wali