name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
province
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
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prŏv′ĭns
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Canada, Received-Pronunciation, standard: /ˈpɹɒv.ɪns/
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Canada, Received-Pronunciation, standard, also, dialectal: /ˈpɹɑv.ɪns/
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General-American: /ˈpɹɔv.ɪns/ without the cot–caught merger
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General-American, cot-caught-merger: /ˈpɹɑv.ɪns/
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Australian, Scotland: /ˈpɹɔv.ɪns/
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New-Zealand: /ˈpɹɒv.əns/
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rhymes with -ɒvɪns
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CMU ARPABET: P R AA1 V AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: P R AA1 V IH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.
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noun
Meaning 3
An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.
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noun
Meaning 4
An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor or prefect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ancient-Rome, Roman-Empire, historical
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Synonyms: eparchy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Christianity
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noun
Meaning 6
An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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noun
Meaning 7
The parts of a country outside its national capital.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural, with-definite-article
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noun
Meaning 8
A major region defined by common geologic attributes and history.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 9
An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.
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noun
Meaning 10
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his state is in the deep south
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: state
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
Narrower terms: commonwealth, eparchy, American state, Italian region, Canadian province, Australian state, Soviet Socialist Republic, Guangdong, Kwangtung, Guangdong province, Gansu, Kansu, Gansu province, Hebei, Hopei, Hopeh, Hebei province, Hunan, Hunan province, Szechwan, Sichuan, Szechuan, Szechwan province, Yunnan, Yunnan province, Xinjiang, Sinkiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia, Nei Monggol, Yucatan, Campeche, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Lower Saxony, Bavaria, Kosovo, Bosnia, Tyrol, Tirol, Assam, Karnataka, Mysore, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Gujerat, Tamil Nadu, Madras, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Indonesian Borneo, Kalimantan, Friesland, Free State, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope Province, Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope, Abkhaz, Abkhazia, Adzhar, Adzharia, Buganda
noun
Meaning 11
the proper sphere or extent of your activities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- it was his province to take care of himself
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: responsibility
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
Narrower terms: ecclesiastical province
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English provynce, from Anglo-Norman province, Old French province, from Latin prōvincia, seemingly corresponding to prō- (“forward”) + vinciō (“to bind, bind about, fetter, tie, fasten, surround, encircle”). Displaced Old English boldġetæl.
Across languages
Translations
220 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: provinsie — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Albanian: krahinë — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Albanian: provincë — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Amharic: ክፍለ ሀገር (kəflä hägär) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Arabic: وِلَايَة (wilāya) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Arabic: مُقَاطَعَة (muqāṭaʕa) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Arabic: عمالة (ʕamāla) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Arabic: إقليم (ʔiqlīm) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Aragonese: probinzia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Armenian: նահանգ (nahang) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Armenian: մարզ (marz) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Asturian: provincia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Azerbaijani: vilayət — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Azerbaijani: əyalət — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Bashkir: өлкә (ölkə) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Belarusian: во́бласць (vóblascʹ) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Belarusian: праві́нцыя (pravíncyja) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Bengali: প্রদেশ (prodeś) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Central Bikol: probinsya — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Bulgarian: прови́нция (províncija) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Bulgarian: о́бласт (óblast) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Burmese: ပြည်နယ် (pranynai) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Catalan: província — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Chechen: провинци (provinci) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Chechen: область (oblastj) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Chinese Cantonese: 省份 (saang2 fan6) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Chinese Cantonese: 省 (saang2) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Chinese: сын (sɨn) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Eastern Min Chinese: 省 (sēng) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Hakka Chinese: 省份 (sén-fun) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Hakka Chinese: 省 (sén) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Chinese: 省份 (séng-hūn) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Chinese: 省 (zh-min-nan) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Chinese Mandarin: 省份 (shěngfèn) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Chinese Mandarin: 省 (shěng) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Wu Chinese: 省 (5san) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Chuvash: ил (il) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Coptic: ⲉⲡⲁⲣⲭⲓⲁ (eparkhia) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Coptic: ⲑⲱϣ (thōš) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Coptic: ⲕⲁϩ (kah) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Czech: provincie — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Czech: oblast — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Czech: kraj — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Danish: provins — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Dhivehi: ޕްރޮވިންސް (provin̊s) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Dutch: provincie — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Esperanto: provinco — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Estonian: maakond — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Extremaduran: província — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Finnish: provinssi — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Finnish: maakunta — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Finnish: lääni — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- French: province — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- French: état — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- West-Frisian: provinsje — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Galician: provincia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Georgian: მხარე (mxare) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Georgian: პროვინცია (ṗrovincia) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Georgian: ოლქი (olki) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- German: Provinz — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- German: Land — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Greek: επαρχία (eparchía) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Ancient Greek: ἐπαρχία (eparkhía) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Gujarati: પ્રાંત (prā̃t) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Hebrew: פְּרוֹבִינְצְיָה (províntsya) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Hebrew: מחוז (makhóz) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Hindi: प्रांत (prānt) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Hindi: प्रदेश (pradeś) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Hungarian: tartomány — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Hungarian: provincia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Icelandic: skattland — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Icelandic: hérað — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Indonesian: propinsi — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Indonesian: provinsi — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Indonesian: wilayah — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Interlingua: provincia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Irish: cúige — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Irish: proibhinse — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Italian: provincia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Japanese: 県 (ken) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Japanese: 地方 (chihō) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Japanese: 州 (shū) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Japanese: 省 (shō) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kannada: ಪ್ರಾಂತ (prānta) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kapampangan: lalauigan — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kazakh: провинция (provinsiä) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kazakh: аймақ (aimaq) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kazakh: облыс (oblys) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kazakh: уәлаят (uälaät) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Khmer: ខេត្ត (khaet) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Khmer: ចង្វាត (cɑɑcɑngviət) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Korean: 성 (seong) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Korean: 도 (do) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Korean: 주 (ju) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Central Kurdish: پارێزگای (parêzgay) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Northern Kurdish: parêzgeh — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Northern Kurdish: wîlayet — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Northern Kurdish: eyalet — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Northern Kurdish: mihafize — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kyrgyz: провинция (provintsiya) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kyrgyz: область (oblast) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kyrgyz: аймак (aymak) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kyrgyz: ылаят (ılayat) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Kyrgyz: облус (oblus) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Lao: ແຂວງ (khuǣng) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Lao: ຈັງຫວັດ (chang huat) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Latin: provincia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Latin: pāgus — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Latvian: province — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Lingala: etuka — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Lithuanian: provincija — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Lombard: proìnsa — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Low German: Provinz — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Lü: ᦵᦌᦲᧃ (soen) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Macedonian: покраина (pokraina) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Macedonian: провинција (provincija) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Malay: provinsi — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Malay: wilayah — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Malayalam: പ്രവിശ്യ (praviśya) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Manchu: ᡤᠣᠯᠣ (golo) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Māori: porowini — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Marathi: प्रांत (prānta) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Classical Mongolian: ᠮᠤᠵᠢ (muǰi) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Mongolian: аймаг (ajmag) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Mongolian: муж (muž) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Mongolian: ᠠᠶᠢᠮᠠᠭ (ayimaɣ) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Mongolian: ᠮᠤᠵᠢ (muǰi) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Moore: provẽnse — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Norman: provînche — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Norman: provinche — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Norwegian Bokmål: provins — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Norwegian Nynorsk: provins — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Occitan: província — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Occitan: prouvincio — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Church Slavic: власть (vlastĭ) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Old East Slavic: волость (volostĭ) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Old East Slavic: оболость (obolostĭ) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Old English: boldġetæl — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Pangasinan: luyag — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Pashto: ولايت (welāyat) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Pashto: ايالت (eyālat) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Persian: اُسْتَان (ustān) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Persian: وِلَایَت (wilāyat) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Iranian Persian: اُسْتان (ostân) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Iranian Persian: وِلایَت (velâyat) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Polish: prowincja — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Polish: województwo (voivodeship) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Portuguese: província — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Quechua: marka — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Romanian: provincie — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Russian: о́бласть (óblastʹ) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Russian: край (kraj) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Russian: прови́нция (províncija) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Russian: штат (štat) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Russian: префекту́ра (prefektúra) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Sardinian: provìntzia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Sassarese: prubìnzia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Serbo-Croatian: о̏бла̄ст — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Serbo-Croatian: прови́нција — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Serbo-Croatian: по̀крајина — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Serbo-Croatian: ȍblāst — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Serbo-Croatian: províncija — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Serbo-Croatian: pòkrajina — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Silesian: prowincyjo — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Slovak: oblasť — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Slovak: kraj — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Slovak: provincia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Slovene: provinca — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Slovene: pokrajina — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Spanish: provincia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Swahili: mkoa — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Swahili: jimbo — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Swedish: provins — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Swedish: län — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Swedish: landskap — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Tagalog: probinsiya — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Tagalog: lalawigan — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Tajik: провинтсия (provintsiya) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Tajik: вилоят (viloyat) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Tajik: устон (uston) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Tamil: மாகாணம் (mākāṇam) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Tatar: өлкә (ölkä) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Tatar: провинция (prowintsiyä) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Telugu: ప్రావిన్స్ (prāvins) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Tetum: provínsia — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Thai: จังหวัด (jang-wàt) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Thai: แขวง (kwɛ̌ɛng) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Tibetan: ཞིང་ཆེན (zhing chen) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Turkish: il — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Turkish: vilayet — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Turkmen: welaýat — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Turkmen: oblast — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Turkmen: prowinisiýa — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Ukrainian: о́бласть (óblastʹ) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Ukrainian: прові́нція (províncija) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Urdu: وِلایَت (vilāyat) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Urdu: رِیاسَت (riyāsat) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Urdu: صُوبَہ (sūba) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Urdu: پْرَدیش (pradeś) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Urdu: پْرانْت (prānt) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Uyghur: ئۆلكە (ölke) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Uyghur: ۋىلايەت (wilayet) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Uzbek: viloyat — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Uzbek: provintsiya — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Uzbek: oblast — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Vietnamese: tỉnh — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Vietnamese: tỉnh bang — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Volapük: provin — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Volapük: plovin — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Walloon: province — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Welsh: talaith — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Yiddish: פּראָווינץ (provints) — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Zazaki: ıstan — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Zhuang: swngj — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Zhuang: sengj — a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Polish: prowincja — area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop
- Vietnamese: giáo tỉnh — area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop
- Hindi: प्रांतीय (prāntīya) — area under the jurisdiction of a provincial
- Polish: prowincja — area under the jurisdiction of a provincial
- Vietnamese: giáo tỉnh — area under the jurisdiction of a provincial
Real reading context