Etymology : Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin provincia
Pronunciation : prä-v&n(t)s
Function : noun
Date : 14th century
1. district, division; region, area; colony. province\prov"ince\ , n. [f., fr. l. provincia; prob. fr. pro before, for + the root of vincere to conquer. see:
victor.].
2. (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. (acts xiii. 34). milton.
3. 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.".
4. 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. watts.
5. 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.
6. 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. --tattler.
7. 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 n.
8. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south" [syn: state].
9. the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself" [syn: responsibility].
10. a territorial possession controlled by a ruling state [syn: territory, dominion, territorial dominion].
11. 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.
12. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
13. A region of country; a tract; a district.
14. 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.
15. The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
16. Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament.
17. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada. the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself".
18. 1. A province is a large section of a country which has its own administration. the Algarve, Portugal's southernmost province.
19. The provinces are all the parts of a country except the part where the capital is situated. The government plans to transfer some 30,000 government jobs from Paris to the provinces.
20. If you say that a subject or activity is a particular person's province, you mean that this person has a special interest in it, a special knowledge of it, or a special responsibility for it. Industrial research is the province of the Department of Trade and Industry.
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