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How to spell governor

Governor is spelled G-O-V-E-R-N-O-R.

What it means: The head of a state government.

In a sentence: The governor visited our school and talked to the students. ▶

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Same family: govern, governorate, governance, governing, governed. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Governor” comes from the Latin word *gubernare*, meaning “to direct, rule, or steer,” the same root that gave us the English word “gubernatorial.” In engineering, the word was borrowed to describe a device that ‘steers’ or controls a machine’s speed automatically.

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