noun. A territory governed as an administrative or political unit of a country or empire.

noun. A division of territory under the jurisdiction of a metropolitan.

noun. Areas of a country situated away from the capital or population center.

noun. An area of knowledge, activity, or interest: synonym: field.

noun. The range of one's proper duties and functions; scope.

noun. An area of land, less extensive than a region, having a characteristic plant and animal population.

noun. Any of various lands outside Italy conquered by the Romans and administered by them as self-contained units.

noun. Originally, a country of considerable extent which, being reduced under Roman dominion, was remodeled, subjected to the rule of a governor sent from Rome, and charged with such taxes and contributions as the Romans saw fit to impose. The earliest Roman province was Sicily.

noun. An administrative division of a country: as, the provinces of Spain; the former provinces of France; more loosely, any important administrative unit, as one of the governments of Russia or of the crownlands of Austria.

noun. A part of a country or state as distinguished from the capital or the larger cities; the country: usually in the plural: as, an actor who is starring in the provinces.

noun. Eccles., the territory within which an arch bishop or a metropolitan exercises jurisdiction: as, the province of Canterbury; the province of Illinois.

noun. In the Roman Catholic Church, one of the territorial divisions of an ecclesiastical order, as of the Franciscans, or of the Propaganda.

noun. A region of country; a tract; a large extent.

noun. The proper duty, office, or business of a person; sphere of action; function.

noun. A division in any department of knowledge or activity; a department.

noun. In zoology, a prime division of animals; a phylum; a subkingdom; a branch; a type: as, in Owen's classification, the four provinces — Vertebrate., Articulata, Mollusca, and Radiata. The prime divisions of a province are called subprovinces.

noun. In zoögeog., a subregion; a faunal area less extensive than a region. Thus, the Nearctic or North American region is zoologically divided into the eastern, middle, and western provinces.

noun. 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.

noun. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.

noun. A region of country; a tract; a district.

noun. 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.

noun. The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.

noun. 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.

noun. A subdivision of government usually one step below the national level.

noun. A territorial area within a country.

noun. A jurisdiction; a (literal or figurative) area of authority.

proper noun. Northern Ireland

noun. the proper sphere or extent of your activities

noun. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation