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province
has definitions from the fields of government,geography
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[ noun ] (government,geography) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
Synonyms Examples "his state is in the deep south" Used in print (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)New_England academies welcome fugitives from the provinces , South as_well_as West . (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)He has traversed provinces and kingdoms , but he has not consolidated them behind him , nor does he control them . Related terms administrative_district Bavaria commonwealth Chihuahua Gansu American_state Assam Lower_Saxony Indonesian_Borneo Eritrea hebei Canadian_province Italian_region goa karnataka Bihar Gujarat Orissa friesland Transvaal Soviet_Socialist_Republic Buganda madras kosovo manipur andhra_pradesh Australian_state abkhaz adzhar Tyrol Yunnan eparchy guangdong hunan sinkiang inner_mongolia uttar_pradesh west_bengal Szechwan free_state cape_colony cape_of_good_hope Chechnya country |
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[ noun ] (geography) a territorial possession controlled by a ruling state
Used in print (Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)The Pathet_Lao forces held two northern provinces and openly took the offensive in three more . Related terms possession region development Palestine jurisdiction enclave Attica protectorate Boeotia goldfield residential_district Yukon nunavut Galloway American_Samoa Castile Acadia Northwest_Territories athos Northern_Territory Gilbert_and_Ellice_Islands congressional_district city_district Lothian_Region Faroe_Islands Macao Sabah East_Malaysia borderland West_Malaysia Sarawak Aragon French_Polynesia Catalonia Kordofan british_virgin_islands american_virgin_islands louisiana_purchase Natal acre lake_district possession Palatinate northern_mariana_islands trust_territory mandate administrative_district zone |
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[ noun ] the proper sphere or extent of your activities
Synonyms Examples "it was his province to take care of himself" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8540
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