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Look up: Province

  1. Province
    A geographically defined area with a characteristic set of species or characteristic percentage representation by given species
    Found on http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/glo

  2. province
    [Noun] A part or region of a country.
    Example: The province of Manitoba is in the centre of Canada.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  3. province
    [n] - the proper sphere or extent of your activities
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Province
    Prov'ince noun [ French, from Latin provincia ; probably from pro before, for + the root of vincere to conquer. See Victor .] 1. (Roman Hist.) 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. Wyclif (Acts xiii. 34). Milton. 2. A country or reg ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/183

  5. province
    1. 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. ... 2. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, especially. One remote from the capital. 'Kingdoms and provinces.' ... 3. A region of country; a tract; a d ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. province
    responsibility noun the proper sphere or extent of your activities; `it was his province to take care of himself`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. province
    noun the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; `his state is in the deep south`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Province
    A `province` is a territorial unit, almost always a country subdivision.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province

  9. 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. • (n.) 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; ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  10. province
    (from the article `Precambrian time`) ...of kilometres across, that may contain either greenstone-granite belts or granulite-gneiss belts or both. These regions are variously designated ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/125

  11. province
    (from the article `Belgium`) Farther down the administrative hierarchy are the provinces (Flemish: provincies), each of which is divided into arrondissements and further ... The organization of the provinces, units midway in size between regions and communes, is analogous to that of the communes; they each have councils, ... [2 relat...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/125

  12. province
    in Roman antiquity, a territorial subdivision of the Roman Empire—specifically, the sphere of action and authority of a Roman magistrate who held the ... [4 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/125

  13. province
    a designated political area within a country; similar to a state
    Found on http://www.eslgold.com/acad_vocab_defini


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