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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of the administrative provinces of modern Greece.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A government or department under a nomarch, as in modern Greece; the jurisdiction of a nomarch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch; a nome.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Modern Greek nomarkhia, from Greek nomarkhiā, district : nomos, district; see nome + -arkhiā, -archy.]

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