PROVINCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does province mean? 

• PROVINCE (noun)
  The noun PROVINCE has 2 senses:

1. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

2. the proper sphere or extent of your activities

  Familiarity information: PROVINCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROVINCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

province; state

Context example:

his state is in the deep south

Hypernyms ("province" is a kind of...):

administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "province"):

commonwealth (the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico))

Italian region (Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes)

Malaysian state (one of the several states constituting Malaysia)

Canadian province (Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes)

Australian state (one of the several states constituting Australia)

Soviet Socialist Republic (one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991))

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

eparchy (a province in ancient Greece)

Instance hyponyms:

Sikkim (a state in northeastern India in the Himalaya Mountains between Nepal and Bhutan)

Andhra Pradesh (a state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal)

Buganda (a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom)

Bihar (a state of northeastern India)

Goa (a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony)

Manipur (state in northeastern India)

Gujarat; Gujerat (an industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay)

Madras; Tamil Nadu (a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras)

Uttar Pradesh (a state in northern India)

Maharashtra (a state in west-central India)

Orissa (state in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal)

West Bengal (a state in eastern India)

Indonesian Borneo; Kalimantan (the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo)

Friesland (one of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands)

Free State; Orange Free State (a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997)

Transvaal (a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers)

Cape Colony; Cape of Good Hope Province; Cape Province (a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa)

Cape of Good Hope (a province of western South Africa)

Abkhaz; Abkhazia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability)

Adzhar; Adzharia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea)

Assam (state in northeastern India)

Guangdong; Guangdong province; Kwangtung (a province in southern China)

Gansu; Gansu province; Kansu (a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia)

Hebei; Hebei province; Hopeh; Hopei (a populous province in northeastern China)

Hunan; Hunan province (a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources)

Sichuan; Szechuan; Szechwan; Szechwan province (a populous province of south central China)

Yunnan; Yunnan province (a province of southern China)

Sinkiang; Xinjiang; Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people)

Inner Mongolia; Nei Monggol (an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911)

Yucatan (a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula)

Campeche (a Mexican state on the eastern part of the Gulf of Campeche)

Chihuahua; Coahuila (a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau)

Quintana Roo (a Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula)

Tabasco (a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche)

Lower Saxony (a state in northwestern Germany)

Bavaria (a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory)

Kosovo (a Serbian province in southern Serbia and Montenegro populated predominantly by Albanians)

Bosnia (the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Tirol; Tyrol (a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy)

Karnataka; Mysore (state in southern India; formerly Mysore)

Holonyms ("province" is a member of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Derivation:

provincial (characteristic of the provinces or their people)

provincial (of or associated with a province)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The proper sphere or extent of your activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

province; responsibility

Context example:

it was his province to take care of himself

Hypernyms ("province" is a kind of...):

area; arena; domain; field; orbit; sphere (a particular environment or walk of life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "province"):

ecclesiastical province (the district within the jurisdiction of an archbishop or a metropolitan or one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical order)

 Context examples 

“You take me out of my province there,” said he.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It has been so many years my province to give advice, that you cannot be surprized, Mr. Knightley, at this little remains of office.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As an enemy of his kind, it was in White Fang's province to fight with them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Nursing does not belong to a man; it is not his province.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Reportedly, at least two towns — including Makilala in the province of North Cotabato — declared a state of calamity following Wednesday's quake.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)

It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own province.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was not in the mate’s province to go out in the boats, and though I manœuvred cunningly for it, Wolf Larsen never granted me the privilege.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A Canadian province located on Canada's southeastern coast.

(Nova Scotia, NCI Thesaurus)

I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

NCCTG consists of a network of more than 1,000 cancer specialists at community clinics, hospitals and medical centers in 25 states in US, two Canadian provinces and Mexico.

(North Central Cancer Treatment Group, NCI Thesaurus)