Definitions for province

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province prov·ince

Spelling: [prov-ins]

IPA: /ˈprɒv ɪns/

Province is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in province (ceinoprv).

Definitions for province

noun

1. an administrative division or unit of a country.
2. the provinces. the parts of a country outside of the capital or the largest cities. (in England) all parts of the country outside of London.
3. a country, territory, district, or region.
4. Geography. physiographic province.
5. a department or branch of learning or activity:
6. sphere or field of activity or authority, as of a person; office, function, or business:
7. a major subdivision of British India.
8. an ecclesiastical territorial division, as that within which an archbishop or a metropolitan exercises jurisdiction.
9. History/Historical. any of the North American colonies now forming major administrative divisions of Canada. any of certain colonies of Great Britain which are now part of the U.S.
10. Roman History. a country or territory outside of Italy, brought under the ancient Roman dominion and administered by a governor sent from Rome.
11. Mining. an individual mineral-producing area.

Origin of province

1300-50; Middle English Middle French Latin prōvincia province, official charge

Examples for province

The governor of Punjab province, a Muslim man, called publicly for leniency for her.

The violence continues, but on a scale diminished since when American bases and outposts dotted the province.

Around half the Baluch in the province are unemployed, a result, say rights groups, of longstanding marginalization by Tehran.

And who fetched them into this province, I should like to know!

And to that old French province the Englishman of the colonies must go to find his country!

Still she felt that it was not within her province to interfere.

The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.

They are not the principles of a province or of a single continent.

Three kids play cricket among the crude gravestones in a cemetery that is the largest in the province.

Each governor, at one time, was free to do almost as he pleased in his own province.