ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE

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 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)

Sense 1

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)