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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to a governor.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to a governor: as, a gubernatorial election; gubernatorial duties.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to a governor, or to government.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a governor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective relating to a governor

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin gubernātor, governor, from gubernāre, to govern; see govern.]

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From Latin gubernātor ("governor"), from gubernō ("govern"), +‎ -ial.

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