Word Meanings - PROVINCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 . Milton. 2. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire

Additional info about word: PROVINCE

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 . Milton. 2. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital. "Kingdoms and provinces." Shak. 3. A region of country; a tract; a district. Over many a tract of heaven they marched, and many a province wide. Milton. Other provinces of the intellectual world. I. Watts. 4. 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; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority. 5. The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere. The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection. Tattler. 6. Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROVINCE)

• Department
• Section
• division
• portion
• function
• office
• branch
• province
• line
• Duty
• Obligation
• part
• business
• responsibility
• allegiance
• once
• calling
• trust
• commission
• service
• Field
• Ground
• scope
• arena
• scene
• opportunity
• room
• Territory
• Province
• region
• domain
• country

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