Meaning of province in English

province

noun

/ˈprɑː.vɪns/ uk

/ˈprɒv.ɪns/

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 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 favor 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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Towns & regions: named regions of countries

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 | Intermediate English

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.

[ C ]

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

province noun (SUBJECT)

[ U ] fml

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

province

After all, to understand the why of things was not then and unfortunately still is not within the province of science.

From Huffington Post

The rules require a candidate to get the backing of his or her own county as well as one other from the province.

From TIME

Normal life is returning to the oil-rich southern province.

From NPR

And then there's the role of cities, states, and provinces, non-national actors with the economic power to make fast, effective emissions cuts.

From WIRED

So we use very little text -- just the name of the place, the province and the date.

From NPR

She says this lack of funding means that 20 students per province are selected, via a test, to study music.

From NPR

Yet the southern coast of this province also offers many treasures to the attentive visitor.

From National Geographic

We're in the side workstation -- the province of folding napkins, cutting up garnishes, polishing the silverware.

From Chicago Tribune

And their definitions place civic acts as either off-hours voluntarism or the province of public service workers.

From Huffington Post

While countries might conduct censuses, the data doesn't go much deeper than the county or province level.

From The Atlantic

The compact offers each state and province important tools to meet challenges to public health, regional economies and environmental sustainability.

From MLive.com

The deathbed, once the province of the priest, became, more and more, the domain of the doctor.

From The New Yorker

During these difficult economic times, perhaps, the province will choose to innovate; now that the traditional responses are no longer feasible.

From Huffington Post

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Collocations with province

province

These are words often used in combination 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.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

exclusive province

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

From the Cambridge English Corpus

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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]…

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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…