province
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
province/ˈprɒvɪns/
▶noun
- 1 a principal administrative division of a country or empire.
■ (the Province) Brit. Northern Ireland.
■ Christian Church a district under an archbishop or a metropolitan.
■ Roman History a territory outside Italy under a Roman governor.
- 2 (one's province) an area in which one has special knowledge, interest, or responsibility.
- 3 (the provinces) the whole of a country outside the capital, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. provincia ‘charge, province’, of uncertain ultimate origin.
'province' also found in these Oxford entries:
Agent General
- araucaria
- Asti
- bantam
- bey
- cape
- Cape doctor
- Cape Malay
- city
- convocation
- dacite
- dauphinois
- dependency
- direct rule
- eparchy
- exarch
- exarchate
- galangal
- guelder rose
- kaolin
- Kosovar
- Land
- legate
- lieutenant governor
- Limburger
- lusophone
- Manitoban
- mazurka
- metropolitan
- Min
- Nova Scotian
- Ontarian
- ordinary
- Permian
- PQ
- premier
- primate
- proconsul
- procurator
- prolocutor
- Prov.
- provincial
- Quebecker
- Rhaeto-Romance
- satrapy
- satsuma
- Sindhi
- Swazi
- tetrarch
