About The Word Province
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Province Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Province?
[n] the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south"
[n] a territorial possession controlled by a ruling state [n] the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself" Synonyms | Synonyms for Province: dominion | responsibility | state | territorial dominion | territory Related Terms | Find terms related to Province: See Also | Abkhaz | Abkhazia | administrative district | administrative division | Adzhar | Adzharia | American state | American Virgin Islands | Andhra Pradesh | area | arena | Assam | Australian state | Bavaria | Bihar | British Virgin Islands | Buganda | Canadian province | Chihuahua | commonwealth | country | domain | Faeroe Islands | Faeroes | Faroe Islands | Faroes | field | French Oceania | French Polynesia | Gansu | Gilbert and Ellice Islands | Goa | Gujarat | Gujerat | Hebei | Hopeh | Hopei | Indonesian Borneo | Italian region | Kalimantan | Kansu | Karnataka | Kosovo | land | Lower Saxony | Macao | Macau | Madras | mandate | mandatory | Manipur | Mysore | orbit | Orissa | Palestine | possession | Sichuan | Soviet Socialist Republic | sphere | Szechuan | Szechwan | Tamil Nadu | territorial division | Tirol | Transvaal | trust territory | trusteeship | Tyrol | United States Virgin Islands | VI | Yunnan Province In Webster's Dictionary \Prov"ince\, n. [F., fr. L. provincia; prob. fr. pro
before, for + the root of vincere to conquer. See {Victor}.]
1. (Roman Hist.) A country or region, more or less remote
from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government;
a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy. --Wyclif
(Acts xiii. 34). Milton.
2. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a
portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the
capital. ``Kingdoms and provinces.'' --Shak.
3. A region of country; a tract; a district.
Over many a tract of heaven they marched, and many a
province wide. --Milton.
Other provinces of the intellectual world. --I.
Watts.
4. A region under the supervision or direction of any special
person; the district or division of a country, especially
an ecclesiastical division, over which one has
jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in
which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises
ecclesiastical authority.
5. The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or
body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy,
and chaste in her affection. --Tattler.
6. Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada,
having a governor, a local legislature, and representation
in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The
Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.
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