Definition of Province

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Province

A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.

A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.

A region of country; a tract; a district.

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.

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

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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Province Quotations

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
Marcus Garvey

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorothea Lange

War is the province of danger.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
David Rockefeller

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
Lord Mountbatten

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.
Alex Campbell

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
Alfred de Vigny

Province Translations

province in Afrikaans is provinsie
province in Dutch is gouvernement
province in French is province
province in German is Provinz

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