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Synonyms for province

Grammar : Noun
Spell : prov-ins
Phonetic Transcription : ˈprɒv ɪns

Top 10 synonyms for province
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Définition of province

Origin :
  • early 14c., "country, territory, region," from Old French province "province, part of a country; administrative region for friars" (13c.) and directly from Latin provincia "territory outside Italy under Roman domination," also "a public office; public duty," of uncertain origin, usually explained as pro- "before" + vincere "to conquer" (see victor); but this does not suit the earliest Latin usages. Meaning "one's particular business or expertise" is from 1620s.
  • noun area of rule, responsibility
Example sentences :
  • They are not the principles of a province or of a single continent.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Still she felt that it was not within her province to interfere.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • And to that old French province the Englishman of the colonies must go to find his country!
  • Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Each governor, at one time, was free to do almost as he pleased in his own province.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
  • And who fetched them into this province, I should like to know!
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • Party journalism in the Province of Quebec is peculiarly bitter and mendacious.
  • Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous
  • The Ridiculous only, as I have before said, falls within my province in the present work.
  • Extract from : « Joseph Andrews Vol. 1 » by Henry Fielding
  • But to follow those is the province of the intellect, not of the imagination.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • The province passed into the hands of the Dutch of New Amsterdam, however, in 1655.
  • Extract from : « The Nation in a Nutshell » by George Makepeace Towle
  • The hurricane, the most furious ever felt in the province, lasted three days.
  • Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz

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