regionful

English

Etymology

region +‎ -ful

Noun

regionful (plural regionfuls)

  1. the amount that a region can hold.
    • 1981, Allison R. Ensor, Tennessee Studies in Literature, Univ of Tennessee Pr, page 106:
      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.
    • 2009, Celia Rivenbark, You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 54:
      Rather, we are raising a regionful of, well, perps.
    • 2017, Julian Murphet, Sounding Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN:
      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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