Definition of province

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Province (n.) 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..

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Colony :: Colony (n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America..
Incorporate :: Incorporate (v. t.) To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work..
Legate :: Legate (n.) Under the emperors, a governor sent to a province..
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..
Silesia :: Silesia (n.) A kind of linen cloth, originally made in Silesia, a province of Prussia..
Indict :: Indict (v. t.) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach..
Primate :: Primate (a.) The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
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..
Province :: Province (n.) 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; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority..
Archbishopric :: Archbishopric (n.) The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.
Metempirical :: Metempirical (a.) Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics..
Beglerbeg :: Beglerbeg (n.) The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier..
Champagne :: Champagne (n.) A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France..
Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod..
Pomeranian :: Pomeranian (a.) Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a province of Prussia on the Baltic Sea..
Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal..
Territory :: Territory (n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province..
Eparch :: Eparch (n.) In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy..
Oscan :: Oscan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy..
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..
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