Province

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A territory governed as an administrative or political unit of a country or empire.
  • n. A division of territory under the jurisdiction of an archbishop.
  • n. Areas of a country situated away from the capital or population center.
  • n. A comprehensive area of knowledge, activity, or interest: a topic falling within the province of ancient history. See Synonyms at field.
  • n. The range of one's proper duties and functions; scope or jurisdiction.
  • n. Ecology An area of land, less extensive than a region, having a characteristic plant and animal population.
  • n. Any of various lands outside Italy conquered by the Romans and administered by them as self-contained units.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A subdivision of government usually one step below the national level.
  • n. A territorial area within a country.
  • n. A jurisdiction; a (literal or figurative) area of authority.
  • proper-noun. Northern Ireland
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
  • n. A region of country; a tract; a district.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Originally, a country of considerable extent which, being reduced under Roman dominion, was remodeled, subjected to the rule of a governor sent from Rome, and charged with such taxes and contributions as the Romans saw fit to impose. The earliest Roman province was Sicily.
  • n. An administrative division of a country: as, the provinces of Spain; the former provinces of France; more loosely, any important administrative unit, as one of the governments of Russia or of the crownlands of Austria.
  • n. A part of a country or state as distinguished from the capital or the larger cities; the country: usually in the plural: as, an actor who is starring in the provinces.
  • n. Eccles., the territory within which an arch bishop or a metropolitan exercises jurisdiction: as, the province of Canterbury; the province of Illinois.
  • n. In the Roman Catholic Church, one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical order, as of the Franciscans, or of the Propaganda.
  • n. A region of country; a tract; a large extent.
  • n. The proper duty, office, or business of a person; sphere of action; function.
  • n. A division in any department of knowledge or activity; a department.
  • n. In zoology, a prime division of animals; a phylum; a subkingdom; a branch; a type: as, in Owen's classification, the four provinces — Vertebrate., Articulata, Mollusca, and Radiata. The prime divisions of a province are called subprovinces.
  • n. In zoögeog., a subregion; a faunal area less extensive than a region. Thus, the Nearctic or North American region is zoologically divided into the eastern, middle, and western provinces.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the proper sphere or extent of your activities
  • n. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
  • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tract    district    office    charge    jurisdiction    sphere    division    domain    department    function   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    kingdom    district    territory    colony    region    island    tribe    state    realm    army