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Meaning of 'province' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Province [ 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.
- A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
- A region of country; a tract; a district.
- 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.
- The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
- 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.

Meaning of 'province' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . province [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
Example in sentence:
  • his state is in the deep south
Meaning (2):
- the proper sphere or extent of your activities
Example in sentence:
  • it was his province to take care of himself

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