Definition of province

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Province (n.) The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.

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Vilayet :: Vilayet (n.) One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.
Assamese :: Assamese (a.) Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants..
Coquimbite :: Coquimbite (n.) A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili..
Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority..
Bey :: Bey (n.) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis..
Provincialism :: Provincialism (n.) A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality..
Viceroy :: Viceroy (prep.) The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India..
Letts :: Letts (n. pl.) An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia..
Viaticum :: Viaticum (n.) An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
Eparchy :: Eparchy (n.) A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese..
Tetrarch :: Tetrarch (a.) A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign..
Waywodeship :: Waywodeship (n.) The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode..
Residency :: Residency (n.) A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies..
Archbishop :: Archbishop (n.) A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese..
Department :: Department (v. i.) A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province..
Reduction :: Reduction (n.) The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province..
Royalty :: Royalty (n.) Domain; province; sphere.
Pretorium :: Pretorium (n.) The official residence of a governor of a province; hence, a place; a splendid country seat..
Mistral :: Mistral (n.) A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc..
Exarchate :: Exarchate (n.) The office or the province of an exarch.
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