gubernium
gubernium noun: synonym of guberniya.
Noun
gubernium (plural gubernia or guberniums)
- Synonym of guberniya.
- In the western guberniums, such as Wilna, Podolia, Minsk, &c., &c., 2,889 landed proprietors were condemned, some to death, some to perpetual banishment or hard labour, and in every instance with total loss of all property, real and personal.1863 January, E. S., “Preface”, in Rufin Piotrowski, translated by E. S., My Escape from Siberia, London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, […]; and […] New York, page xii
- Beauty, grace, and accomplishments are, as I said before, a sine qua non, but as Basil is already the colonel of a crack cavalry corps, and has other military honours promised him in the near future, as also by reason that his father is Governor-General of the gubernium of Odessa, and will leave...1883 January 12, James S[kipp] Borlase, “Darker than Death; a Tale of the Russia of To-day”, in The Hull Packet and East Riding Times, number 5,126, Kingston upon Hull, E.R.Y., chapter XVI (The...
- Synonyms:
- guberniya
Examples of gubernium in a sentence
- Althan’s commission first broached in 1755 the idea of a semibureaucratic gubernium for Croatia, resembling the later gubernia of the Bohemian and Austrian Lands.1984, Robert A. Kann, Zdeněk V. David, “Royal Absolutism and Bureaucratic Administration, 1740–1847”, in The Peoples of the Eastern...
- Each Gubernium was divided into smaller administrative units—circles and districts (beneath circles).2015, Iryna Vushko, “Bureaucratic Enlightenment and Galicia”, in The Politics of Cultural Retreat: Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian...
Synonyms of gubernium
Forms of gubernium
| plural | gubernia |
|---|---|
| plural | guberniums |
Origin of gubernium
Borrowed from Medieval Latin gubernium.
Questions about gubernium
- What does gubernium mean?
- Gubernium means synonym of guberniya.
- How do you use gubernium in a sentence?
- Althan’s commission first broached in 1755 the idea of a semibureaucratic gubernium for Croatia, resembling the later gubernia of the Bohemian and Austrian Lands.
- What part of speech is gubernium?
- Gubernium is a noun.
- What is the plural of gubernium?
- The plural of gubernium is gubernia.
Words near gubernium in the dictionary
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