WAYWODE, WAIWODE, noun 1. In the Ottoman empire, the governor of a small town or province, which not forming a pashawlic, is the appendage of some great officer; also, a mussulman charged with the collection of taxes, or with the police of a place. 2. In Poland, the governor of a province.
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