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province
[ prov-ins ]
noun
- an administrative division or unit of a country.
- the provinces,
- the parts of a country outside of the capital or the largest cities.
- (in England) all parts of the country outside of London.
- a country, territory, district, or region.
- Geography. physiographic province.
- a department or branch of learning or activity:
the province of mathematics.
Synonyms:
- sphere or field of activity or authority, as of a person; office, function, or business:
Such decisions do not lie within his province.
- a major subdivision of British India.
- an ecclesiastical territorial division, as that within which an archbishop or a metropolitan exercises jurisdiction.
- History/Historical.
- any of the North American colonies now forming major administrative divisions of Canada.
- any of certain colonies of Great Britain which are now part of the U.S.
- Roman History. a country or territory outside of Italy, brought under the ancient Roman dominion and administered by a governor sent from Rome.
- Mining. an individual mineral-producing area.
province
/ ˈɒɪԲ /
noun
- a territory governed as a unit of a country or empire
- a district, territory, or region
- the provincesplural those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
- ecology a subdivision of a region, characterized by a particular fauna and flora
- an area or branch of learning, activity, etc
- the field or extent of a person's activities or office
- RC Church Church of England an ecclesiastical territory, usually consisting of several dioceses, and having an archbishop or metropolitan at its head
- a major administrative and territorial subdivision of a religious order
- history a region of the Roman Empire outside Italy ruled by a governor from Rome
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ·DZiԳ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of province1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of province1
Example Sentences
Seven of the soldiers on the list all died in a single ambush on Sunday in Guaviare province.
Travel round Chinese provinces and you see they are littered with empty projects – lines of towering concrete shells that have been labelled "ghost cities".
The country's 63 provinces and municipalities are being reduced to 34, and government ministries and agencies cut from 30 to 17.
The leader of the sovereigntist party, which only runs candidates in Quebec, did urge Carney to avoid pressing the province on certain issues, noting that collaboration goes both ways.
In his speech on Tuesday, Carney vowed new "trade and energy corridors working in partnership with the provinces, territories, and Indigenous peoples".
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