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noun
The chief provincial magistrate, military commander, and, as a member of the House of Orange, highest-ranking noble in the Dutch Republic, who often served as a de facto head of state alongside the States General; the position became hereditary in 1747
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
An office formerly held by Danish and Swedish officials, best translated as governor-general.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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History
Partial calque of Dutch stadthouder (superseded), stadhouder (literally “placeholder”), from Middle Dutch stathouder, itself a calque of Medieval Latin locum tenēns. Doublet of locum tenens and lieutenant.
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