viceroyalty

noun
/vaɪsˈɹɔɪəlti/

Etymology

From vice- + royalty, modeled on French vice-royauté.

  1. derived from vice-royauté

Definitions

  1. The office or term of service of a viceroy

    The office or term of service of a viceroy; viceroydom.

  2. The place governed by a viceroy.

    • India became a viceroyalty when the British government directly annexed it in the 1850s.

The neighborhood

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