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Province

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Province has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Provincen. [F., fr. L. provincia; prob. fr. pro before, for + the root of vincere to conquer. See Victor.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A region of country; a tract; a district.  [1913 Webster]
    "Over many a tract
    of heaven they marched, and many a province wide.
    "  [1913 Webster]
    "Other provinces of the intellectual world."  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.  [1913 Webster]
    "The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection."  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Province, n.
1 a principal administrative division of a country etc.
2 (the provinces) the whole of a country outside the capital, esp. regarded as uncultured, unsophisticated, etc.
3 a sphere of action; business (outside my province as a teacher).
4 a branch of learning etc. (in the province of aesthetics).
5 Eccl. a district under an archbishop or a metropolitan.
6 Rom.Hist. a territory outside Italy under a Roman governor.

Etymology
ME f. OF f. L provincia charge, province

THESAURUS

Province

Kreis, academic discipline, academic specialty, agricultural region, ally, ambit, applied science, arable land, archbishopric, archdiocese, archduchy, archdukedom, area, arena, arrondissement, art, bailiwick, beat, bishopric, black belt, body politic, boondocks, border, borderland, borough, buffer state, business, calling, canton, capacity, captive nation, champaign, character, charge, chieftaincy, chieftainry, circle, circuit, citrus belt, city, city-state, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, commune, concern, conference, congressional district, constablewick, corn belt, cotton belt, country, countryside, county, demesne, departement, department, department of knowledge, diocese, discipline, district, division, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, dust bowl, duty, earldom, electoral district, electorate, empery, empire, exurbia, farm belt, farm country, farmland, field, field of inquiry, field of study, free city, fruit belt, function, government, grand duchy, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, hamlet, headache, hemisphere, highlands, hundred, job, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, kingdom, land, lowlands, magistracy, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, march, meadows and pastures, metropolis, metropolitan area, moors, nation, nationality, natural science, oblast, office, okrug, ology, orb, orbit, pale, parish, part, place, plains, polis, polity, position, possession, power, prairies, precinct, principality, principate, protectorate, provinces, puppet government, puppet regime, pure science, pursuit, quarter, realm, region, republic, responsibility, riding, role, round, rural district, rustic region, satellite, science, section, see, seneschalty, settlement, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, social science, soke, sovereign nation, specialty, sphere, stake, state, steppes, strand, study, subdiscipline, sultanate, superpower, synod, technicology, technics, technology, terrain, territory, the country, the soil, the sticks, thing, tobacco belt, toparchia, toparchy, town, township, tract, uplands, veld, village, walk, wapentake, ward, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, woodland, woods and fields, work, worry, yokeldom, zone

ROGET THESAURUS

Province

Business

N business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about, affair, concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part, role, cue, province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round, routine, race, career, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft, mystery, handicraft, trade, exercise, work, avocation, press of business, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally Adj, a business with an income at its heels, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, par negotiis neque supra.

Class

N class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section, department, subdepartment, province, domain, kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset, assortment, feather, kidney, suit, range, gender, sex, kin, manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament, indication, particularization, selection, specification, similarity.

Government

N government, legal authority, soveriegn, sovereign authority, authority, master, direction, national government, nation, state, country, nation- state, dominion, republic, empire, union, democratic republic, kingdom, principality, state government, state, shire, province, county, canton, territory, duchy, archduchy, archdukedom, woiwodshaft, commonwealth, region, property, county, parish city, domain, tract, arrondissement, mofussil, commune, wappentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth, soke, tithing, ward, precinct, bailiwick, command, empire, sway, rule, dominion, domination, sovereignty, supremacy, suzerainty, lordship, headship, chiefdom, seigniory, seigniority, rule, sway, command, control, administer, govern, lead, preside over, reign, possess the throne, be seated on the throne, occupy the throne, sway the scepter, wield the scepter, wear the crown, state, realm, body politic, posse comitatus, judicature, cabinet, seat of government, seat of authority, headquarters, accession, installation, politics, reign, regime, dynasty, directorship, dictatorship, protectorate, protectorship, caliphate, pashalic, electorate, presidency, presidentship, administration, proconsul, consulship, prefecture, seneschalship, magistrature, magistracy, monarchy, kinghood, kingship, royalty, regality, aristarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy, commonwealth, dominion, heteronomy, republic, republicanism, socialism, collectivism, mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy, vox populi, imperium in imperio, bureaucracy, beadledom, bumbledom, stratocracy, military power, military government, junta, feodality, feudal system, feudalism, thearchy, theocracy, dinarchy, duarchy, triarchy, heterarchy, duumvirate, triumvirate, autocracy, autonomy, limited monarchy, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, home rule, representative government, monocracy, pantisocracy, gynarchy, gynocracy, gynaeocracy, petticoat government, legislature, judiciary, administration, office of the president, office of the prime minister, cabinet, senate, house of representatives, parliament, council, courts, supreme court, state, interior, labor, health and human services, defense, education, agriculture, justice, commerce, treasury, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Postal Service, Post Office, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, president, vice president, cabinet member, prime minister, minister, senator, representatative, president pro tem, speaker of the house, department head, section head, section chief, federal judge, justice, justice of the supreme court, chief justice, treasurer, secretary of the treasury, director of the FBI, governor, state cabinet member, state senator, assemblyman, assemblywoman, regal, sovereign, governing, royal, royalist, monarchical, kingly, imperial, imperiatorial, princely, feudal, aristocratic, autocratic, oligarchic, republican, dynastic, ruling, regnant, gubernatorial, imperious, authoritative, executive, administrative, clothed with authority, official, departmental, ex officio, imperative, peremptory, overruling, absolute, hegemonic, hegemonical, authorized, government, public, national, federal, his majesty's, her majesty's, state, county, city, N, a dog's obeyed in office, cada uno tiene su alguazil, le Roi le veut, regibus esse manus en nescio longas, regnant populi, the demigod Authority, the right divine of kings to govern wrong, uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Abode

N abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat, lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance, tabernacle, throne, ark, home, fatherland, country, homestead, homestall, fireside, hearth, hearth stone, chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side, harem, seraglio, zenana, household gods, lares et penates, roof, household, housing, dulce domum, paternal domicile, native soil, native land, habitat, range, stamping ground, haunt, hangout, biosphere, environment, ecological niche, nest, nidus, snuggery, arbor, bower, lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyrie, eyry, rookery, hive, covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost, nidification, kala jagah, bivouac, camp, encampment, cantonment, castrametation, barrack, casemate, casern, tent, building, chamber, xenodochium, tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft, cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam, pen, barn, bawn, kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre, cow house, cow shed, stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium, shippen, igloo, iglu, jacal, lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling, log cabin, log house, shack, shebang, tepee, topek, house, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace, kiosk, bungalow, casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house, temple, hamlet, village, thorp, dorp, ham, kraal, borough, burgh, town, city, capital, metropolis, suburb, province, country, county town, county seat, courthouse, ghetto, street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews, square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister, gardens, grove, residences, block of buildings, market place, place, plaza, anchorage, roadstead, roads, dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor, quarter, parish, assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place, inn, hostel, hostelry, hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice, public house, pub, pot house, mug house, gin mill, gin palace, bar, bar room, barrel house, cabaret, chophouse, club, clubhouse, cookshop, dive, exchange, grill room, saloon, shebeen, coffee house, eating house, canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada, almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse, garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance, demesne, cage, terrarium, doghouse, pen, aviary, barn, stall, zoo, urban, metropolitan, suburban, provincial, rural, rustic, domestic, cosmopolitan, palatial, eigner Hert ist goldes Werth, even cities have their graves, ubi libertas ibi patria, home sweet home.

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