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regionful

noun

Etymology

From region + -ful.

  1. derived from regiō
  2. derived from regiun
  3. inherited from regioun
  4. suffixed as regionful — “region + ful”

Definitions

  1. the amount that a region can hold.

    • Yet a close reader can hardly avoid two conclusions: (1) almanac quotations from a regionful of cities could have set the scene with equal effect.
    • Rather, we are raising a regionful of, well, perps.
    • This single Yorkshire voice, serving as a synecdoche for a regionful of unemployed, must, in the Listener, retain its claim to authenticity through the written markers of dialect for the BBC to derive the benefit from 'giving' it.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA