Meaning of province in English

province

noun

/ˈprɒv.ɪns/ us

/ˈprɑː.vɪns/

province noun (REGION)

one of the areas that a country or empire is divided into as part of the organization of its government, which often has some control over its own laws :

the Canadian province of Alberta

Asia Minor was Rome's richest province.

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state noun (COUNTRY)

territory (AREA)

one of the four areas into which Ireland has traditionally been divided:

Connaught is Ireland's westernmost province.

in the deep south of Ireland in the province of Munster

the Province UK (also the province)

Northern Ireland:

We are interested in the economic prosperity of both the Province and the Republic of Ireland.

the provinces [ plural ]

the parts of a country that are not the capital city or near a large city:

He didn't want to teach at a university in the provinces.

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He was born in the China's northwest Shanxi province in 1950.
The competition is not open to residents of Alaska, Hawaii and the province of Quebec.
The majority of people in the province are in favour of devolution.
an autonomous province
Octavian ruled Rome's western provinces.
An Ulster fry is a dish of fried food that is popular throughout the province of Ulster in Ireland.
Catholics who seek closer links between the province and the rest of Ireland
We're not very sophisticated here in the provinces.

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province noun (SUBJECT)

someone's province formal

a subject or activity of special interest, knowledge, or responsibility:

the province of Marketing is within the province of the sales department.

Renaissance art is not really his province - he specializes in the modern period.

I didn't feel it was my province to give legal advice.

With this kind of interdisciplinary approach, everything is your province.

This kind of spyware has largely been the province of internet fraudsters.

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(Definition of province from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

province | American Dictionary

province

noun

/ˈprɑv·ɪns/

province noun (REGION)

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[ C ]

a division of a country that has its own government:

The province of Quebec has voted several times on independence from Canada.

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The provinces are the parts of a country outside its capital or most important city.

province noun (SUBJECT)

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a subject or activity of special interest, knowledge, or responsibility:

Architecture is within the province of the art department.

(Definition of province from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of province

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Several of our young men have already been taken into the colleges of the provinces of the north.

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As the individual towns, their tribute requirements, or the imperial status of the provinces changed over time, the document could be modified accordingly.

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The constitution lacked institutional devices to counteract centrifugal tendencies and moderate political conflicts in the provinces.

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First, wholesale loans were arranged for various localities or provinces with the intermediation of prominent traditional elites.

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The null hypothesis for the test is that the conditional logit estimates are not different with or without including the inland provinces.

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By 1984 tax subsidies to these provinces were a large multiple of the amounts authorised by the enabling legislation.

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The composition of functional interests represented in the general board is allowed to vary, the statute for which is to be determined by the provinces.

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Several operated in various spheres, their careers providing numerous reminders of the interlocking dimensions of urban political life in the provinces.

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Positive forms of encouragement of pribumi entrepreneurship in the centre and the provinces must be a core policy.

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Data are often grouped by political subdivisions, such as provinces, to estimate prevalence or force of infection in different areas.

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As a result, while the provinces developed and strengthened their own power basis, the center also adjusted its relations with the provinces.

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Note that the provinces did not completely surrender taxing authority, only for taxes that overlapped with federal taxes.

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Secondly, a number of films showed that while the provinces and the city remained linked, the differences were more sharply etched.

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The poorer provinces, which were most in need of public-works programmes, were particularly unsuccessful at allocating and disbursing the funds.

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In 1997, some provinces ceased to process new applicants during the clean-up process and others defaulted on payments.

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Collocations with province

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coastal provinces

Thus, evil people in the coastal provinces regard minting coin as a lucrative enterprise, mixing lead and copper with fine silver to mint foreign coin.

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eastern provinces

Officials from the eastern provinces were not alone in their opposition to the use of compulsion in the production of palm oil.

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exclusive province

They also took part in sporting rituals mistakenly assumed to be the exclusive province of men.

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What is the pronunciation of province?

Translations of province

in Chinese (Traditional)

地區, 省, 學科…

in Chinese (Simplified)

地区, 省, 学科…

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provincia, provincia [feminine, singular]…

in Portuguese

província, província [feminine]…

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प्रांत, एखादा देश किंवा साम्राज्य यांचे त्याच्या सरकारचा भाग म्हणून विभागलेले क्षेत्र, ज्याचे स्वतःच्या कायद्यांवर काही नियंत्रण असते.…

州, 省, 州（しゅう） / 省（しょう） / 県（けん）…

eyalet, bölge…

province [feminine], province…

província…

provincie…

ஒரு நாடு அல்லது பேரரசு அதன் அரசாங்கத்தின் அமைப்பின் ஒரு பகுதியாக பிரிக்கப்பட்ட பகுதிகளில் ஒன்று, இது பெரும்பாலும் அதன் சொந்த சட்டங்களின் மீது சில கட்டுப்பாட்டைக் கொண்டுள்ளது…

(किसी देश या साम्राज्य का एक) प्रांत…

પ્રાંત…

provins…

provins…

wilayah…

die Provinz…