Crossword-Solution: PROVOST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Provost | n. | A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches. |
| Provost | n. | The keeper of a prison. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “PROVOST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Senior official in a cathedral of recent foundation | 1 answer |
| Scottish mayor | 1 answer |
| Officer of Military Police. | 1 answer |
| Jon of "Lassie" | 1 answer |
| English college head. | 1 answer |
| University officer | 2 answers |
| University bigwig | 2 answers |
| College head | 3 answers |
| Military police officer | 3 answers |
| College bigwig | 3 answers |
| CHURCH dignitary | 7 answers |
| university official | 9 answers |
| BIGWIG COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR | 10 answers |
| college official | 11 answers |
| alberta | 12 answers |
| Warden | 27 answers |
| magistrate | 28 answers |
| Dean | 36 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with PROVOST (5)
The sports were regulated by an officer of inferior rank, termed the Provost of the Games; for the high rank of the marshals of the lists would have been held degraded, had they condescended to superintend the sports of the yeomanry.
The provost-marshal was in attendance, to prove that the General was in earnest; and in the throng that followed the proclamation, Herncastle and I met again.
One morning the provost and the minister (for the Glengyles were Presbyterian) were summoned to the castle.
Dand said, chuckling: “Ay, Clem has the elements of a corporation.” “A provost and corporation,” returned Clem.
Lafaele is provost of the live-stock, whereof now, three milk-cows, one bull-calf, one heifer, Jack, Macfarlane, the mare, Harold, Tifaga Jack, Donald and Edinburgh—seven horses—O, and the stallion—eight horses; five cattle; total, if my arithmetic be correct, thirteen head of beasts; I don’t know how the pigs stand, or the ducks, or the chickens; but we get a good many eggs, and now and again a duckling or a chickling for the table; the pigs are more solemn, and appear only on birthdays and sich.
Quotes with PROVOST (2)
People retreated behind their front doors into the hidden zone of their private, family worlds and when outsiders asked how things were they answered, Oh, everything’s going along just fine, not much to report, situation normal. But everyone secretly knew that behind that door things were rarely humdrum. More typically, all hell was breaking loose, as people dealt with their angry fathers, drunken mothers, resentful siblings, mad aunts, lecherous uncles and crumbling grandpar…
Usually on Sundays, I won't cook because I'll have dinner at my mom's. She's the provost of Mills College in Oakland and lives on campus. It's a very beautiful school in a very bad part of town.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).