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prov·ince (präv′ins)

noun

  1. any of the outside territories controlled and ruled by ancient Rome
  2. an administrative division of a country; specif., any of the ten main administrative divisions of Canada
    1. a territorial district; territory
    2. the parts of a country removed from the capital and the populated, cultural centers
  4. proper duties or functions; sphere enforcing the laws does not fall within the province of this commission
  5. an area, division, or branch of learning or activity
  6. a division of a country under the jurisdiction of an archbishop or metropolitan
  7. a division of the world, smaller than a region, with reference to the plants or animals found there

Etymology: OFr < L provincia, province < ? IE *prowo- (< base *pro-) > Gr prōira, prow, OE frea, lord

province Synonyms

province

n.

area, region, dependency; see territory 2.

province Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • Zambezia: Cholera raging in Zambezia Cholera continues to rage in the central province of Zambezia, particularly in the provincial capital, Quelimane.

Converse of object

  • conquer: Edmund conquered the province, which in 946 he ceded to Malcolm I, King of Scots who agreed to become his vassal.
  • populate: The capital of a thinly populated province of the same name, the city of Murcia has a population of 358,000 people.
  • neighbor: In the neighboring province of Inhambane only one case has been reported.
  • invade: In his words, he began when 'the city papers did not invade much the province of local journals.
  • administer: A two-chamber council would administer the province and represent the interests of the 250 tribal groups who live there.
  • divide: Lord Carey says that bitterness, hostility, misunderstanding and strife now separate provinces from one another and divide individual provinces.

Adjective modifier

  • northern: I traveled three hours over dirt roads to visit a Clinic in the bush in the Northern province.
  • Canadian: Canadian provinces, United Kingdom counties ) or individual cities.
  • eastern: Emile Durkheim was born at Epinal in the eastern French province of Lorraine on April 15, 1858.
  • western: Five US marines have been killed in " enemy action " in Iraq's western province of Al-Anbar, the military announced Thursday.
  • Indonesian: A plebiscite held in 1969 resulted in the area becoming an Indonesian province.

Modifies a noun

  • border: Two apartments in renovated 17C farm setting near Cortona, Arezzo and Assisi in rural Tuscany near the Siena province border.

Noun used with modifier

  • Zambezia: Zambezia province In Zambezia, there were no reports of any deaths or injuries.
  • Maputo: In Gaza the figure reaches about 10 per cent, and 7.7 per cent in Maputo province.
  • prairie: It's prairie province where there's a saying: if your dog runs away, you can see him for three days!
  • eleven: In the summer of 1971 I spent two months in Turkey: eleven provinces out of 65 were under martial law.
  • oil: Almost all known oil provinces in the world seep.
  • gas: In contrast the southern North Sea gas province has been charged almost entirely from the Carboniferous Coal Measures.
province Quotes

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

It is now apparent that this great, this powerful, this formidablekingdomisconsidered onlyas a province of a despicable electorate.

—Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder