Province

Noun

 * 1) A subdivision of government usually one step below the national level.
 * 2) A territorial area within a country.

Related terms

 * provincial

Coordinate terms

 * canton
 * county
 * department
 * oblast
 * shire
 * state

Proper noun

 * 1)  Northern Ireland

Adjectives for Province
neighboring; fruitful; extensive; specific; outcrying; petitioning; ostensible; archicpiscopal; opulent; diverse; singular; discordant; subjugated; baffling; petty; dreaded; remote; invaded; turbulent; outlying; detailed; slender; idle; nugatory; qualificatory; stupendous; contradictory; tinned; illiberal; constitutional; suitable; severe; manipulated; complex; uncertain; antimanipulation; miraculous; adequate; obnoxious; ample; sweeping; stringent; institutionalized;  standard;   highly-important; scanty; illogical.

Verbs for Province
banish to—; border—; divide into—; dwell in—; edge—; encroach on—; extend—; in¬habit—; lay waste—; occupy—; retire to—; rule—; settle in—; skirt—; tax—; tyrannize over—; visit—; —extends; —harbors; —trades.

Thesaurus
Kreis, academic discipline, academic specialty, agricultural region, ally, ambit, applied science, arable land, archbishopric, archdiocese, archduchy, archdukedom, area, arena, arrondissement, art, bailiwick, beat, bishopric, black belt, body politic, boondocks, border, borderland, borough, buffer state, business, calling, canton, capacity, captive nation, champaign, character, charge, chieftaincy, chieftainry, circle, circuit, citrus belt, city, city-state, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, commune, concern, conference, congressional district, constablewick, corn belt, cotton belt, country, countryside, county, demesne, departement, department, department of knowledge, diocese, discipline, district, division, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, dust bowl, duty, earldom, electoral district, electorate, empery, empire, exurbia, farm belt, farm country, farmland, field, field of inquiry, field of study, free city, fruit belt, function, government, grand duchy, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, hamlet, headache, hemisphere, highlands, hundred, job, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, kingdom, land, lowlands, magistracy, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, march, meadows and pastures, metropolis, metropolitan area, moors, nation, nationality, natural science, oblast, office, okrug, ology, orb, orbit, pale, parish, part, place, plains, polis, polity, position, possession, power, prairies, precinct, principality, principate, protectorate, provinces, puppet government, puppet regime, pure science, pursuit, quarter, realm, region, republic, responsibility, riding, role, round, rural district, rustic region, satellite, science, section, see, seneschalty, settlement, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, social science, soke, sovereign nation, specialty, sphere, stake, state, steppes, strand, study, subdiscipline, sultanate, superpower, synod, technicology, technics, technology, terrain, territory, the country, the soil, the sticks, thing, tobacco belt, toparchia, toparchy, town, township, tract, uplands, veld, village, walk, wapentake, ward, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, woodland, woods and fields, work, worry, yokeldom, zone

Etymology
provincia:, usually taken as pro: + vinco:, but this doesn't fit the earliest uses of the word.

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: вобласць
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: província
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: provinco
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Interlingua: provincia
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:,  ,  ,
 * Khmer: (kait)


 * Korean: (seong, 省)
 * Kurdish:, , ,
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: استان
 * Russian:,  ,  ,  ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovak: oblasť
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: provin, plovin

Noun

 * 1) The inhabitants of a province, or of provincial France
 * 1) The inhabitants of a province, or of provincial France

Noun
province



Synonyms

 * provincie