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Definition of Provost
1. Noun. A high-ranking university administrator.
Definition of Provost
1. n. A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.
Definition of Provost
1. Proper noun. (surname from=Middle English) ¹
2. Noun. (context: Scottish local government) The equivalent of mayor in some Scottish cities. ¹
3. Noun. (context: higher education) A senior academic administrator; sometimes called the Vice-President of Academic Affairs. ¹
4. Noun. (religion) The highest position in a monastery below an abbot. ¹
5. Noun. A prison keeper, especially in the military. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Provost
1. a high-ranking university official [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provost
Literary usage of Provost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1892)
"45 ; by the provost regarding the order of voting in council, iii. ... 129; by
the magistrates against the Queen's election of a provost, iii. ..."
2. Journal by Bond & Share Society, New Hampshire Dental Society, American Wine Society, Manning Valley Historical Society (1908)
"r 6th day of October, 1768, John Travers, Esq., provost, the following persons
were appointed clerks of the Markets Jury of this Corporation for the ensuing ..."
3. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: By the Right Hon by Nicholas Simons, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Leach, Anthony Hart, Lancelot Shadwell, Richard Torin Kindersley (1844)
"Robert Mason, DD, a member of Queen's College, Oxford, by his will dated the 25th
of September 1833, bequeathed, to the provost and Fellows of A legacy was ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1915)
"Now this time, Rich Peter was n't going to bother with the provost—no ! It might
be share and share alike with a pewter casket, but a gold casket he was ..."
5. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"In tile H:h cent. In England tho imposta and taxée received by the popo were
fivefold the amount of thoee received by the crown. provost. ..."
6. The Military Policy of the United States by Emory Upton (1904)
"140, the Secretary of War created a corps of provost-marshals, the supervision
and control of which was vested in a provost-Marshal-General of the Wai- ..."
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