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Definition of province
1a : a country or region brought under the control of the ancient Roman governmentb : an administrative district or division of a countryc provinces plural : all of a country except the metropolises
2a : a division of a country forming the jurisdiction of an archbishop or metropolitanb : a territorial unit of a religious order
3a : a biogeographic division of less rank than a regionb : an area that exhibits essential continuity of geological history; also : one characterized by particular structural or petrological features
4a : proper or appropriate function or scope : sphere that question is outside my provinceb : a department of knowledge or activity
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Examples of province in a Sentence
They left the city for life in the provinces.
a legal question outside the doctor's province
Recent Examples of province from the Web
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The province had 136 deaths in April, a 97 percent increase over the same month a year earlier.
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The province had 136 deaths in April, a 97 percent increase over the same month a year earlier.
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The Mackenzie Tour has three events in July, four in August and two in September left on its 2017 schedule, which will take Shelton to five Canadian provinces after this year's first three events were played in British Columbia.
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Doty continues to fight for their own birth certificate to be changed also — as of now, B.C. is not one of the Canadian provinces considering including a non-binary gender option on birth certificates.
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The U.S., U.K. and other Western powers have previously accused President Bashar al-Assad’s government of using the nerve agent during the April 4 attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, in which at least 85 people were...
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In Toronto, the capital of the province of Ontario and Canada’s largest city, the Pride Parade on June 25 was a major subject of discussion for more than one reason.
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In Canada, marijuana for medicinal purposes is already legal in every province and the country’s lawmakers are on the verge of doing the same thing for recreation use, effective July 2018.
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Vince Young is here, of all places, at this moment, in the city of Saskatoon, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, where vivid summer storms dance across endlessly flat horizons.
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Origin and Etymology of province
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin provincia
Synonym Discussion of province
Other Government and Politics Terms
PROVINCE Defined for English Language Learners
province
playDefinition of province for English Language Learners
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: any one of the large parts that some countries are divided into
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: a subject or area of interest that a person knows about or is involved in
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the provinces : the parts of a country that are away from large cities
PROVINCE Defined for Kids
province
playDefinition of province for Students
1 : a part of a country having a government of its own (as one of the divisions of Canada)
2 provinces plural : the part or parts of a country far from the capital or chief city
3 : an area of activity or authority the province of science
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