ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE
Dictionary entry overview: What does ecclesiastical province mean? • ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE (noun)
The noun ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE has 1 sense:
1. the district within the jurisdiction of an archbishop or a metropolitan or one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical order
Familiarity information: ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE (noun)
Meaning:
The district within the jurisdiction of an archbishop or a metropolitan or one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical order
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
the general of the Jesuits has several provinces under him
Hypernyms ("ecclesiastical province" is a kind of...):
province; responsibility (the proper sphere or extent of your activities)
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