province

[provĀ·ince]

A province is a region within a country. If you travel to Canada, you'll have to decide whether you want to go to the province of Quebec, or Saskatchewan, or one of the other 8 provinces in that enormous country.

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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.

Noun
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south"

Noun
the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself"


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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.

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A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.

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A region of country; a tract; a district.

n.
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.

n.
The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.

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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.


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. 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. 3. A region of country; a tract; a district.
Over many a tract of heaven they marched, and many a province wide.
Other provinces of the intellectual world.
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. 5. The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection.
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.

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.

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Usage Examples

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

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Other Usage Examples

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

War is the province of danger.

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