Definition of province Province

/pɹɑˈvʌns/ - [pravuns] - prov•ince

We found 16 definitions of province from 7 different sources.

What does province mean?

Noun Plural: provinces
province - the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself"
		responsibility
		arena, domain, orbit, area, sphere, field a playing field where sports events take place
province - the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south"
		state
		administrative district, administrative division, territorial division a district defined for administrative purposes
		country, state, land the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
		commonwealth a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
		eparchy a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church
		american state one of the 50 states of the United States
		italian region Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes
		canadian province Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes
		australian state one of the several states constituting Australia
		soviet socialist republic one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)

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province (Noun)
A subdivision of government usually one step below the national level.
province (Noun)
A territorial area within a country.
province (Noun)
A jurisdiction; a literal or figurative area of authority.

province (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.
province (n.)
A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
province (n.)
A region of country; a tract; a district.
province (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; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority.
province (n.)
The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
province (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.

province
A geographic area of some considerable extent, smaller than a continent but larger than a region, which is unified by some or all of its characteristics and which can therefore be studied as a whole. A faunal province, for example, has a particular assemblage of animal species, which differs from assemblages in different contemporaneous environments elsewhere.\n(Source: WHIT)
province
An administrative subdivision of a country, in some cases relatively autonomous and equivalent to a state, in others, smaller and less autonomous and more akin to a county.

province
prov′ins, n. a portion of an empire or a state marked off for purposes of government: a part of a country as distinguished from the capital: the district over which a governor or an archbishop has jurisdiction: a region: a business or duty: a person's business or calling: a department of knowledge.—adj. Provin′cial, relating to a province: belonging to a division of a country: local: showing the habits and manners of a province: unpolished: narrow.—n. an inhabitant of a province or country district: (R.C.) the superintendent of the heads of the religious houses in a province.—v.t. Provin′cialise, to render provincial:—pr.p. provin′cialīsing; pa.p. provin′cialīsed.—ns. Provin′cialism, a manner, a mode of speech, or a turn of thought peculiar to a province or a country district: a local expression: narrowness; Provincial′ity.—adv. Provin′cially.—Provincial letters, a series of letters written (1656-57) by Pascal against the doctrines and policy of the Jesuits. [Fr.,—L. provincia, a province; perh. pro, for, vincĕre, to conquer.]