Titles

In medieval and early modern Germany, the '''''' (; Latin ) was the head or manager of a mint, a moneyer with responsibility for the minting of coins, or specie. His duties were defined differently at different times and places.

the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment

A preceptor (from Latin, "praecepto") is a teacher responsible for upholding a precept, meaning a certain law or tradition.

chief executive officer (CEO) or managing director of an organization, company, or corporation, who serves as a board member

were Japanese hereditary noble titles. Their use traces back to ancient times when they began to be used as titles signifying a family's political and social caste.

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thumb|upright|Gabbai in Biała Podlaska (Poland, 1926) A gabbai (), sometimes spelled gabay, also known as shamash (, sometimes transcribed shamas) or warden (UK, similar to churchwarden), is a beadle or sexton, a person who assists in the running of synagogue services in some way. The role may be undertaken on a voluntary or paid basis. A shamash (literally 'servant') or gabbai can also mean an assistant to a rabbi (particularly the secretary or personal assistant to a Hasidic rebbe).

a title that does not have legal significance but rather is used through custom or courtesy

thumb|Mtavari Levan II Dadiani|Levan II. Mtavari () was a feudal title in Georgia usually translated into English as Prince or Duke.

religious leader in Egypt

thumbnail|Painting of a tsarevna by Vasily Surikov Tsarevna (, ) was a title given to the daughters of tsars in Russia before the 18th century. The male equivalent was tsarevich.

'''''' (, Dutch for 'royal') is an honorary title given to certain companies and non-profit organisations in the Netherlands and to a lesser extent Belgium, by the monarchs of each country. It was first introduced by Louis Bonaparte in 1807, then King of Holland, who awarded the title to cultural associations. Companies awarded with the title may opt to use the English equivalent royal instead. It is comparable with the Royal Warrant in the United Kingdom.

important title in medieval Western Europe

mughal Empire title

letters indicating a title, placed after the name of a person

ancient Japanese hereditary title

official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council-manager form of city government

ordinal numbers used to distinguish among persons with the same name who held the same office

Meister () means 'master' in German (as in master craftsman, or as an honorific title such as Meister Eckhart). The word is akin to master and maestro. In sports, Meister is used for the current national, European or world champion (e.g. Deutscher Meister, Europameister, Weltmeister).

thumb|Tavadi Ilia Chavchavadze Tavadi (, "prince", lit. "head/chief" [man], from tavi, "head", with the prefix of agent -di) was a feudal title in Georgia first applied in the Late Middle Ages usually translated in English as Prince (most commonly) and Duke (less commonly). The title was designated for dynastic princes who were heads of families, akin to mtavari who had a higher standing.

state office in the early Central Asian Turkic states

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The were lower-ranking provincial samurai that emerged in 15th-century Japan Muromachi period. The definition was rather broad and the term jizamurai included landholding military aristocracy as well as independent peasant farmers. They alternated between warfare and using their relatively small plots of land for intensive and diversified forms of agriculture. They came from the powerful , who owned farmland and held leadership positions in their villages, and became vassals of and later .

, or , historically Opoyakomoi, was a rank among the Yukatchu class of the former Ryukyu Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa, Japan), above the rank of Satunushi and below the rank of Ueekata. As scholar-officials, they often served in administrative positions in the Ryukyuan government. Placed in the upper class, the Pechin would often travel with a servant at their side.

A supercargo (from Italian

member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom government

A tysiatskii, alternatively transliterated as tysyatsky (, , , ) and sometimes translated as dux or herzog, was a military leader in Kievan Rus' and later Russian city-states who commanded a people's volunteer army called a tysyacha (). In the Novgorod Republic, the tysiatskii evolved into a judicial or commercial official and was elected by the boyars at a veche meeting for a period of one year. In cities with no veche, the tysiatskie were appointed by the prince from among the noble boyars and could hand down their post to their sons.

thumb|A Nassau County Deputy Sheriff giving a ticket to Lawrence Sperry after he lands his plane on the street The title of deputy often refers to a person given authorization to act on behalf of a higher-ranking individual in case of absences or vacancies, the title itself is oftentimes accompanied by the title or rank of their superior as is the case in 'Deputy Commissioner'. Deputies are associated with positions of authority within political, legal and executive contexts. A deputy may also refer to a person whose rank is immediately below that of the head of a department; it may furthermo

French public office

honorific officer appointment in German armies

A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation. Although often the executive branch of government, and often personified by a single elected person who holds the office of "president", in practice, the presidency includes a much larger collective of people, such as chiefs of staff, advisers and other bureaucrats. Although often led by a single person, presidencies can also be of a collective nature, such as the presidency of the European Union is held on a rotating basis by

Referendary is the English form of a number of administrative positions, of various rank, in chanceries and other official organizations in Europe.

thumb|Tancredo Neves was one of the two presidents-elect of Brazil who died before taking office.

Almami (; Also: Almamy, Almaami) was the regnal name of Tukulor monarchs from the eighteenth century through the first half of the twentieth century. It is derived from the Arabic Al-Imam, meaning "the leader", and it has since been claimed as the title of rulers in other West African theocratic monarchies.

office of the Russian Empire

Title given to East Asian royal women

thumb|"The Washington Schoolmaster", a cartoon of 1902 from Chicago A schoolmaster, or simply master, is a male school teacher. The usage first occurred in England in the Late Middle Ages and early modern period. At that time, most schools were one-room or two-room schools and had only one or two such teachers, a second or third being often called an assistant schoolmaster. The use of the traditional term survives in British private schools, both secondary and preparatory, and in grammar schools, as well as in some Commonwealth boarding schools (such as the Doon School in India) which are mode

was the name of an ancient title of nobility in the kabane system of Yamato period Japan from the 4th through 6th century AD, before the introduction of the Ritsuryō system. The word is a combination of the kanji for with , a political unit smaller than a province, and the agatanushi ranked below the title of . It is thought that the agatanushi were originally chieftains of small Kofun period tribal states which had been annexed by the Yamato state.

Vicegerent is the official administrative deputy of a ruler or head of state: vice (Latin for 'in place of') and gerere (Latin for 'to carry on, conduct').

An ariki (New Zealand, Cook Islands), ꞌariki (Easter Island), aliki (Tokelau, Tuvalu), ali‘i (Samoa, Hawai‘i), '''ari'i (Society Islands, Tahiti), aiki or hakaiki (Marquesas Islands), akariki (Gambier Islands) or ‘eiki''' (Tonga) is or was a member of a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.

title used for high-ranking church leaders

official leader with few powers

Baturu (Manchu: 30px baturu; ) was an official title of China's Qing dynasty, awarded to commanders and soldiers who fought bravely on the battlefield. In Manchu, baturu means "warrior" or "brave." It is originally from the Turco-Mongol word baγatur, which has the same meaning.

collective head of state of the Russian SFSR

family name

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Ritter (German for "knight") is a designation used as a title of nobility in German-speaking areas. Traditionally it denotes the second-lowest rank within the nobility, standing above "Edler" and below "" (Baron). As with most titles and designations within the nobility in German-speaking areas, the rank was hereditary and generally was used with the nobiliary particle of von or zu before a family name.

appointed position within the government of England

Stolnic was a boier (Romanian nobility) rank and the position at the court in the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The title approximately corresponds to seneschal and is borrowed from the Slavic title stolnik (from the word stol, "table") a person in charge of the royal table.

Ku Klux Klan title (1865)

unofficial title

Sukune (宿禰) is one of the hereditary noble titles of ancient Japan. In the 3rd to 5th centuries, it was used as a title to represent military and administrative officers of the Yamato court.

unofficial title for the family of a republic's head of state

Taifu (大夫) was a noble title in Japan, denoting a court rank between First Rank and Fifth Rank under the Ritsuryō system. It was also commonly used to refer to a holder of Fifth Rank, but also for holders of Fourth and Fifth Rank, to differentiate from holders of First, Second and Third Rank, collectively known as kugyō.

proof that all four grandparents were aristocrats

higher spiritual leader of Indian muslims

A mace-bearer, or macebearer, is a person who carries a mace, either a ceremonial one or a real weapon.

thumb|upright|Takanohana Kōji|Takanohana and Kitanoumi as in 2013 A , also known as an , is a sumo elder exercising both coaching functions with active wrestlers and responsibilities within the Japan Sumo Association (JSA). All are former wrestlers who reached a sufficiently high rank to be eligible to this status. The benefits are considerable, as are guaranteed employment until the mandatory retirement age of 65 and are allowed to run and coach in (sumo stables), with a comfortable yearly salary averaging around ().