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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Province \Prov"ince\, n. [F., fr. L. provincia; prob. fr. pro
before, for + the root of vincere to conquer. See Victor.]
1. (Roman Hist.) 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. --Wyclif
(Acts xiii. 34). Milton.
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2. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a
portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the
capital. "Kingdoms and provinces." --Shak.
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3. A region of country; a tract; a district.
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Over many a tract
of heaven they marched, and many a province wide.
--Milton.
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Other provinces of the intellectual world. --I.
Watts.
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4. 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.
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5. The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or
body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
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The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy,
and chaste in her affection. --Tattler.
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6. 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.
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WordNet Province
n 1: the territory occupied by one of the constituent
administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in
the deep south" [syn: state]
2: the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his
province to take care of himself" [syn: responsibility]

Moby Dictionary
Kreis , academic discipline , academic specialty ,
agricultural region , ally , ambit , applied science , arable land ,
archbishopric , archdiocese , archduchy , archdukedom , area , arena ,
arrondissement , art , bailiwick , beat , bishopric , black belt ,
body politic , boondocks , border , borderland , borough , buffer state ,
business , calling , canton , capacity , captive nation , champaign ,
character , charge , chieftaincy , chieftainry , circle , circuit ,
citrus belt , city , city-state , colony , commonweal , commonwealth ,
commune , concern , conference , congressional district ,
constablewick , corn belt , cotton belt , country , countryside ,
county , demesne , departement , department , department of knowledge ,
diocese , discipline , district , division , domain , dominion , duchy ,
dukedom , dust bowl , duty , earldom , electoral district , electorate ,
empery , empire , exurbia , farm belt , farm country , farmland , field ,
field of inquiry , field of study , free city , fruit belt , function ,
government , grand duchy , grass roots , grassland , grazing region ,
hamlet , headache , hemisphere , highlands , hundred , job ,
judicial circuit , jurisdiction , kingdom , land , lowlands ,
magistracy , mandant , mandate , mandated territory , mandatee ,
mandatory , march , meadows and pastures , metropolis ,
metropolitan area , moors , nation , nationality , natural science ,
oblast , office , okrug , ology , orb , orbit , pale , parish , part ,
place , plains , polis , polity , position , possession , power ,
prairies , precinct , principality , principate , protectorate ,
provinces , puppet government , puppet regime , pure science , pursuit ,
quarter , realm , region , republic , responsibility , riding , role ,
round , rural district , rustic region , satellite , science , section ,
see , seneschalty , settlement , sheriffalty , sheriffwick , shire ,
shrievalty , social science , soke , sovereign nation , specialty ,
sphere , stake , state , steppes , strand , study , subdiscipline ,
sultanate , superpower , synod , technicology , technics , technology ,
terrain , territory , the country , the soil , the sticks , thing ,
tobacco belt , toparchia , toparchy , town , township , tract , uplands ,
veld , village , walk , wapentake , ward , wheat belt , wide-open spaces ,
woodland , woods and fields , work , worry , yokeldom , zone