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- Dictionaryprovince/ˈprɒvɪns/
noun
- 1. a principal administrative division of a country or empire: "Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province" Similar
- 2. the whole of a country outside the capital, especially when regarded as lacking in sophistication or culture: British "I made my way home to the dreary provinces by train" Similar
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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. See more. Fewer examples. 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.
a department or branch of learning or activity: the province of mathematics. Synonyms: area. sphere or field of activity or authority, as of a person; office, function, or business: Such decisions do not lie within his province. a major subdivision of British India.
1. a. : a country or region brought under the control of the ancient Roman government. b. : an administrative district or division of a country. c. provinces plural : all of a country except the metropolises. 2. a. : a division of a country forming the jurisdiction of an archbishop or metropolitan. b. : a territorial unit of a religious order. 3. a
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.
A province is a large section of a country which has its own administration. ...the Algarve, Portugal's southernmost province. Synonyms: region, section, county, district More Synonyms of province. 2. plural noun. The provinces are all the parts of a country except the part where the capital is situated.
the parts of a country that are not near a large city: He didn't want to teach at a university in the provinces. See more. Fewer examples. 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.
Definition of province noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
sphere or field of activity or authority, as of a person; office, function, or business: Such decisions do not lie within his province. a major subdivision of British India. an ecclesiastical territorial division, as that within which an archbishop or a metropolitan exercises jurisdiction.
one of the large areas that some countries are divided into because of the type of government they have: the Canadian province of Alberta. the provinces. the areas of a country that are not the capital city and so are not considered exciting or fashionable.
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a territory governed as a unit of a country or empire. 2. (Human Geography) a district, territory, or region. 3. (Human Geography) the provinces ( plural) those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture. 4.
