Province
['prɒvɪns] or ['prɑvɪns]
Definition
(noun.) the proper sphere or extent of your activities; 'it was his province to take care of himself'.
Typist: Robinson--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Territory, region, tract, domain, district.[2]. Dependency, colony.[3]. Business, employment, function, duty, charge, calling, office, part, post, capacity.
Editor: Upton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Tract, region, department, section, sphere, domain, territory
ANT:Metropolis, centre, capital
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Definition
n. a portion of an empire or a state marked off for purposes of government: a part of a country as distinguished from the capital: the district over which a governor or an archbishop has jurisdiction: a region: a business or duty: a person's business or calling: a department of knowledge.—adj. Provin′cial relating to a province: belonging to a division of a country: local: showing the habits and manners of a province: unpolished: narrow.—n. an inhabitant of a province or country district: (R.C.) the superintendent of the heads of the religious houses in a province.—v.t. Provin′cialise to render provincial:—pr.p. provin′cialīsing; pa.p. provin′cialīsed.—ns. Provin′cialism a manner a mode of speech or a turn of thought peculiar to a province or a country district: a local expression: narrowness; Provincial′ity.—adv. Provin′cially.—Provincial letters a series of letters written (1656-57) by Pascal against the doctrines and policy of the Jesuits.
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Examples
- In December, 1762, a circumstance which caused great alarm in the province took place. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Each possesses a separate and independent province with its own peculiar aims and ways of proceeding. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Artesian wells are named after the French Province of Artais, where they appear to have been first used on an extensive scale. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No, no; not for a province of possession, not for a century of life. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Is it the province of Mr. Grimes to improve upon the work? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You take me out of my province there, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It has been so many years my province to give advice, that you cannot be surprized, Mr. Knightley, at this little remains of office. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The little that was left in the world, when all these deductions were made, it was Mrs General's province to varnish. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Later, James was forbidden to publish the paper without submitting to the supervision of the Secretary of the Province. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the province of Holland, {Memoires concernant les Droits, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The disputes between the proprietaries and the people of the province continued in full force, although a war was raging on the frontiers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The revenues from the province of Asia defrayed the expenses of the Roman state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Each province clung to its separate nationality and traditions, and the Huns spread from province to province. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The present baronet, a young man hitherto resident in a distant province, was unknown on his Yorkshire estate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Great Britain has hitherto suffered her subject and subordinate provinces to disburden themselves upon her of almost this whole expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There you will find great towns, rich provinces, honour, glory, riches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such levity is proper enough in the provinces, we make no doubt, but it ill suits the dignity of the metropolis. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the greater part of those provinces of France, which are called the countries of elections, the taille is of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But countries which contribute neither revenue nor military force towards the support of the empire, cannot be considered as provinces. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The institution soon manifested its utility; was imitated by other towns and in other provinces. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In some provinces of France, the king not only imposes what taxes he thinks proper, but assesses and levies them in the way he thinks proper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Some provinces are exempted from the exclusive sale of tobacco, which the farmers-general enjoy through the greater part of the kingdom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those provinces of masculine knowledge seemed to her a standing-ground from which all truth could be seen more truly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was as if they had tacitly agreed to take their different provinces. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There are some such even in the provinces which are said to be treated as foreign, particularly in the city of Marseilles. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Within two decades of the crucifixion this new religion was already attracting the attention of the Roman rulers in several provinces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The live last are, in the greater part of the provinces, under farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For small transactions the various provinces were using perforated zinc and brass cash, but for larger there was nothing but stamped ingots of silver. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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