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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Asiarch :: Asiarch (n.) One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites..
Moodir :: Moodir (n.) The governor of a province in Egypt, etc..
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..
Legate :: Legate (n.) An official assistant given to a general or to the governor of a province.
Canada :: Canada (n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals..
Proconsulary :: Proconsulary (a.) Under the government of a proconsul; as, a proconsular province..
Habitant :: Habitant (v. t.) An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural..
Burgundy :: Burgundy (n.) An old province of France (in the eastern central part).
Cede :: Cede (v. t.) To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty..
Nome :: Nome (n.) A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy..
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort..
Pomeranian :: Pomeranian (a.) Of or pertaining to Pomerania, a province of Prussia on the Baltic Sea..
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..
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..
Brabantine :: Brabantine (a.) Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands..
Elamite :: Elamite (n.) A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia..
Rectory :: Rectory (n.) The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes..
Metropolitan :: Metropolitan (n.) The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
Arendator :: Arendator (n.) In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues..
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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