gubernia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of guberniya.
Example Sentences
- "Soviet Russian troops entered Kharkiv on 7 (20) December 1917; on 12 December they also attacked from the north across Chernihiv gubernia. By mid-February 1918, the gubernii of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Poltava and Katerynoslav were under complete Bolshevik control; […]"
- "In the gubernii, governors served as the highest administrative authority and together with their executive organs supervised the work of provincial-level departments."
- "Even before the administrative reform (1775), new gubernii were being created as territories were added or consolidated on the borderlands. Activity was prodigious in 1764. Siberia’s sole, huge gubernia at Tobolsk was divided to create a gubernia at Irkutsk."
Etymology
From Latin gubernia.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: gubernia