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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Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort..
Elamite :: Elamite (n.) A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia..
Aracanese :: Aracanese (a.) Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah..
Nabob :: Nabob (n.) A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.
Burgundy :: Burgundy (n.) An old province of France (in the eastern central part).
Arendator :: Arendator (n.) In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues..
Lisbon :: Lisbon (n.) A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal..
Up-line :: Up-line (n.) A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the track upon which up-trains run. See Up-train.
Mistral :: Mistral (n.) A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc..
Undertake :: Undertake (v. i.) To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province..
Oscan :: Oscan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy..
Provincial :: Provincial (n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order..
Comprovincial :: Comprovincial (n.) One who belongs to the same province.
Circar :: Circar (n.) A district, or part of a province. See Sircar..
Comprovincial :: Comprovincial (a.) Belonging to, or associated in, the same province..
Walloons :: Walloons (n. pl.) A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively..
Provinciate :: Provinciate (v. t.) To convert into a province or provinces.
Vilayet :: Vilayet (n.) One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.
Beglerbeg :: Beglerbeg (n.) The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier..
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.
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