regionful

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noun

the amount that a region can hold.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounregionful (plural regionfuls)

plural regionfuls

  1. the amount that a region can hold.

    Rather, we are raising a regionful of, well, perps.

    2009, Celia Rivenbark, You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 54
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    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.

    1981, Allison R. Ensor, Tennessee Studies in Literature, Univ of Tennessee Pr, page 106

    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.

    2017, Julian Murphet, Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“regionful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regionful. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “regionful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/regionful.

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