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PROVINCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
Example:
his state is in the deep south
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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))
eparchy (a province in ancient Greece)
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Soviet Socialist Republic (one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991))
Australian state (one of the several states constituting Australia)
Canadian province (Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes)
Malaysian state (one of the several states constituting Malaysia)
Italian region (Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes)
Instance hyponyms:
Manipur (state in northeastern India)
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)
Bihar (a state of northeastern India)
Goa (a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony)
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)
Buganda (a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom)
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)
Assam (state in northeastern India)
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
Example:
it was his province to take care of himself
Synonyms:
province; responsibility
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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:
A clinical trial conducted in Pakistan’s Punjab province found that vitamin D3 supplements added to regular treatment for malnutrition led to significant improvements in a group of 185 malnourished children aged 2‒58 months.
(Vitamin D3 boost helps treat child malnutrition, SciDev.Net)
A province in east-central Canada bordered by Quebec to the east and Manitoba to the west.
(Ontario, NCI Thesaurus)
A province in the east of Canada, composed of Newfoundland Island and Labrador.
(Newfoundland and Labrador, NCI Thesaurus)
The large-scale, multidisciplinary study on palm oil plantations, in the Jambi province in Indonesia, compared the yield associated with decreased versus conventional use of fertilisers, and with mechanical versus herbicide-based weed control.
(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)
Here were the high stewards of Aquitaine, of Saintonge, of La Rochelle, of Quercy, of Limousin, of Agenois, of Poitou, and of Bigorre, with the banners and musters of their provinces.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We stagnate in the provinces.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Or, if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant; and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He told me that what she had said of being here, and there, and everywhere, was true enough; for she made little darts into the provinces, and seemed to pick up customers everywhere, and to know everybody.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The westernmost Canadian province.
(British Columbia, NCI Thesaurus)
In the club of the patrician and the plebeian gin-shop, in the coffee-house of the merchant or the barrack of the soldier, in London or the provinces, the same question was interesting the whole nation.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
