vice-warden

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a deputy or assistant to a warden, authorized to act in the warden's place

   As vice-warden of the stannaries, he could hear mining disputes in the warden's absence.

From vice-, 'deputy or acting in place of,' plus warden. The prefix comes through Latin vice, the ablative of vicis, 'change or turn,' while warden comes through Anglo-French from a Germanic word for guarding. The office title is recorded in English from the 16th century.

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