vice-chancellor (English, noun)
expansion: vice-chancellor (plural vice-chancellors)
Senses:
topics: education
glosses: An official holding a rank immediately below that of chancellor.
topics: education
glosses: An official holding a rank immediately below that of chancellor.
The chief executive of a university, college or similar facility where the chancellor is a largely ceremonial role.
tags: often
glosses: A lower judge of chancery.
topics: Christianity
glosses: In Roman Catholicism, the cardinal whose duty it is to draft and dispatch papal bulls and briefs.
Forms:
form: vice-chancellors
tags: plural
form: vice chancellor
tags: alternative
form: vichaunceller
tags: alternative
obsolete