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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishprovynce, fromAnglo-Normanprovince,Old Frenchprovince, fromLatinprōvincia, seemingly corresponding toprō- andvinciō. ReplacedOld Englishboldġetæl.

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Noun

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province (pluralprovinces)

  1. Aregion of the earth or of a continent; adistrict orcountry.[from 14th c.]
  2. An administrative subdivision of certain countries, includingCanada andChina.[from 14th c.]
    • 1798 October 20 [1797], “CALCULATIONS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE GLOBE.”, inThe Rural Magazine‎[1], volume I, number36,Newark,→OCLC,page 2, column 1:
      Chowta-Zhin, who is ſaid to be a man of buſineſs and preciſion, and cautious of advancing facts, at the requeſt of Earl Macartney, delivered to him a ſtatement taken from one of the public officers in the capitol, of the inhabitants of the fifteen ancientprovinces of China, or China proper, within the great wall ; according to which the number of inhabitants, taken by a regular enumeration, amounts to 333,000,000!
    • 1911 October 16 [1911 October 15], “CENSOR STOPS REVOLT NEWS.; Troops Moving South, but Number Concealed -- Train Service Reduced.”, inThe New York Times‎[2],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2023-08-12, page 6‎[3]:
      The telegraph administration refuses to transmit messages either to or from theProvinces of Hu-Peh, Hu-Nan, Kiang-Si, Sze-Chuan, Kwei-Chow, and Yu-Nan[sic – meaningYun-Nan].
    • 1957,Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “China's Struggle Against Communism: Gains and Losses”, inSoviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎[4], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy,→LCCN,→OCLC,page236:
      After the Hsuchow-Pengpu Battle,* with the exception of the battles fought on Tengpu Island and Kinmen Island,** Government troops put up no determined fight, and, as a result,province afterprovince on the mainland fell into Communist hands.
    • 2016 May 4,The Guardian:
      All of Fort McMurray, with the exception of Parson’s Creek, was under a mandatory evacuation order on Tuesday, said Robin Smith, press secretary for the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo in the Canadianprovince [of Alberta].
    • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:province.
  3. (historical, Ancient Rome, Roman Empire) An area outsideItaly which isadministered by aRomangovernor orprefect.[from 14th c.]
    Synonym:eparchy(formal equivalent toLatinprōvincia inGreek-speakingEastern Roman Empire)
    • 2008 November 28, Mark Brown,The Guardian:
      He reminded his audience of events in 88BC, when the same Mithridates invaded the Romanprovince of Asia, on the western coast of Turkey.
  4. (Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of anarchbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacentdioceses.[from 14th c.]
    • 1838,The Churchman, page44:
      In 1309, neither the Archbishop of Canterbury nor his suffragans would attend in Parliament while the Archbishop of York had the cross borne erect before him in theprovince of Canterbury.
  5. (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of aprovincial within amonasticorder.
  6. (in theplural, chiefly with definite article) The parts of a country outside itsnationalcapital.[from 17th c.]
    • 1937 April 1,The Guardian:
      To-day the first part of the new Indian Constitution comes into force with the granting of a large measure of autonomy to theprovinces.
    • 2023 February 7, Yauhen Lehalau, “'I Couldn't Just Stand By': Russian Fighters Explain Why They Took Up Arms Against The Kremlin”, inRadio Free Europe/Radio Liberty‎[5]:
      "What are the Russianprovinces?" he said. "Dirt, ruins, poverty, drunkenness. That is what we need to be working on, rather than expanding our prison to include Georgia, Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Belarus. That is the kind of Russian nationalist that I am…. There is no sense in using force to hold people that don’t want to be with you."
  7. (geology) A major region defined by common geologic attributes and history.
  8. An area ofactivity,responsibility orknowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.[from 17th c.]
    • 1941 February, “Notes and News: Women on Soviet Railways”, inRailway Magazine, page82:
      More than half a million women are now employed on the railways of the Soviet Union, and some of them perform such duties as those of engine drivers and stationmasters, formerly considered the soleprovince of men.
    • 1984, Dorothee Sölle,The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity, page37:
      Just as money is theprovince of the economy and truth theprovince of science and scholarship, so love is theprovince of the family (Niklas Luhmann).

Usage notes

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Province is the generic English term for such primary divisions of a country, but is not used where another official term has widespread use, such as France'sregions anddepartments, Switzerland'scantons, or the United States of America's and Australia'sstates.Territories andcolonies are sometimes distinguished from provinces as unorganized areas of low or foreign population, which are not considered an integral part of the country. Sovereign subdivisions of a larger whole, such as the principalities of the former Holy Roman Empire or the countries within the European Union, are likewise not usually described as provinces.

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Translations

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a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop
area under the jurisdiction of a provincial

Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinprōvincia.Doublet ofProvence.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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province f (pluralprovinces)

  1. province
  2. (Paris) the countryside; or more broadly, the rest ofmetropolitan France (outside Paris)

Usage notes

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  • The second sense ("France outside Paris"), used by Parisians, is sometimes perceived as pejorative by people outside Paris.[1]
  • May or may not include Corsica. Does not include French overseas territories.

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References

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  1. ^https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/expressions-francaises/est-il-meprisant-de-dire-en-province-20230425

Further reading

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Italian

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Noun

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province f pl

  1. plural ofprovincia

Synonyms

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Middle English

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Noun

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province

  1. Alternative form ofprovynce

Middle French

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Noun

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province f (pluralprovinces)

  1. province (subdivision of a territory)
    • 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe),The Travels of Marco Polo, page14:
      Elle est moult grantprovince.
      It is a big province.

Descendants

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References

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  • province onDictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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provinceoblique singular, f (oblique pluralprovinces,nominative singularprovince,nominative pluralprovinces)

  1. province(subdivision of a territory)

Descendants

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Walloon

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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province f (pluralprovinces)

  1. province
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