noun

• (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level division of a country.
• A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
• A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
• (informal) Father.
• (informal) Boss; employer; gaffer.
• (UK, informal, dated) Term of address to a man; guv'nor.
• (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
• (dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
• (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
• The title for someone who holds the post of governor.