Definition of "viceroy"

viceroy

/ˈvaɪsˌɹɔɪ/

noun
plural viceroys
1. One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.
  Quotations
  The Viceroy's on board - tends to liven things up.
  1980, David Lean, A Screenplay of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India‎, Script City, page 2
2. A zongdu.
3. An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.