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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One way to achieve that would be to divide provinces into more efficient and representative units.
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Rebels and al-Qaida often fight during lulls in the Russian and Syrian government air campaigns that have battered the province since 2013.
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Homemade bombs continue to be one of the Taliban’s main weapons, one that was on display again this week as Afghan forces tried to recapture the district of Nawa in the southern province of Helmand.
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Error loading player: No playable sources found The city of Dandong, in China’s northeastern Liaoning province, appears to be an embarrassing relic of the country’s economic past.
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Russian collusion claims are no longer the exclusive province of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists.
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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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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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