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province 音标拼音: [pr'ɑvəns] [pr'ɑvɪns]
n. 省;地方;本分,职权 省;地方;本分,职权 province n 1: the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; " his state is in the deep south" [ synonym: { state}, { province}] 2: the proper sphere or extent of your activities; " it was his province to take care of himself" [ synonym: { province}, { responsibility}] Province \ Prov" ince\, n. [ F., fr. L. provincia; prob. fr. pro before, for the root of vincere to conquer. See { Victor}.] 1. ( Roman Hist.) 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. -- Wyclif ( Acts xiii. 34). Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital. " Kingdoms and provinces." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A region of country; a tract; a district. [ 1913 Webster] Over many a tract of heaven they marched, and many a province wide. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Other provinces of the intellectual world. -- I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster] 4. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 5. The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere. [ 1913 Webster] The woman' sprovince is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection. -- Tattler. [ 1913 Webster] 6. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 202 Moby Thesaurus words for " province": Kreis, academic discipline, academic specialty, agricultural region, ally, ambit, applied science, arable land, archbishopric, archdiocese, archduchy, archdukedom, area, arena, arrondissement, art, bailiwick, beat, bishopric, black belt, body politic, boondocks, border, borderland, borough, buffer state, business, calling, canton, capacity, captive nation, champaign, character, charge, chieftaincy, chieftainry, circle, circuit, citrus belt, city, city- state, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, commune, concern, conference, congressional district, constablewick, corn belt, cotton belt, country, countryside, county, demesne, departement, department, department of knowledge, diocese, discipline, district, division, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, dust bowl, duty, earldom, electoral district, electorate, empery, empire, exurbia, farm belt, farm country, farmland, field, field of inquiry, field of study, free city, fruit belt, function, government, grand duchy, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, hamlet, headache, hemisphere, highlands, hundred, job, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, kingdom, land, lowlands, magistracy, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, march, meadows and pastures, metropolis, metropolitan area, moors, nation, nationality, natural science, oblast, office, okrug, ology, orb, orbit, pale, parish, part, place, plains, polis, polity, position, possession, power, prairies, precinct, principality, principate, protectorate, provinces, puppet government, puppet regime, pure science, pursuit, quarter, realm, region, republic, responsibility, riding, role, round, rural district, rustic region, satellite, science, section, see, seneschalty, settlement, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, social science, soke, sovereign nation, specialty, sphere, stake, state, steppes, strand, study, subdiscipline, sultanate, superpower, synod, technicology, technics, technology, terrain, territory, the country, the soil, the sticks, thing, tobacco belt, toparchia, toparchy, town, township, tract, uplands, veld, village, walk, wapentake, ward, wheat belt, wide- open spaces, woodland, woods and fields, work, worry, yokeldom, zone
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