•regent, vicegerent, viceroy, governor, proconsul · stadtholder (chief magistrate of the Dutch Republic) · chief official of a region, deputy of a territorial lord; chief magistrate, mayor
stadtholder (chief magistrate of the Dutch Republic)
çekim: çoğul stadhouders
köken: From Middle Dutch stathouder (“substitute (for the king)”), a calque of Medieval Latin locum tenēns. Equivalent to stad (“place, position, station”) + houder (“holder”).