province
省,省内,省份,全省
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- : an administrative division or unit of a country.
- : the provinces, the parts of a country outside of the capital or the largest cities. all parts of the country outside of London.
- : a country, territory, district, or region.
- : Geography. physiographic province.
- : a department or branch of learning or activity: the province of mathematics.
- : sphere or field of activity or authority, as of a person; office, function, or business: Such decisions do not lie within his province.
- : a major subdivision of British India.
- : an ecclesiastical territorial division, as that within which an archbishop or a metropolitan exercises jurisdiction.
- : History/Historical. any of the North American colonies now forming major administrative divisions of Canada.any of certain colonies of Great Britain which are now part of the U.S.
- : Roman History. a country or territory outside of Italy, brought under the ancient Roman dominion and administered by a governor sent from Rome.
- : Mining. an individual mineral-producing area.
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Examples
Like so many towns, provinces and countries across the globe this past year, the Swiss village of Zermatt could have acted sooner.
Most of my canoe travel has been in the rock-and-pine Canadian Shield terrain of my home province of Ontario.
Increasingly priced out of their own cities, Poles are already buying fixer-uppers in provinces like Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where some villages now boast a Polish population of 20 percent and more.
Every province provides direct subsidies, such as unemployment insurance, to the poor.
Xu lived in the city of Linyi in Shandong, a coastal province in China, southeast of Beijing.
The governor of Punjab province, a Muslim man, called publicly for leniency for her.
In Afghanistan, there was a push to take back the southern province Helmand.
The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.
Around half the Baluch in the province are unemployed, a result, say rights groups, of longstanding marginalization by Tehran.
Three kids play cricket among the crude gravestones in a cemetery that is the largest in the province.
You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
But the Mexicans were not the people to give up their best province so easily.
Then affairs almost reached the point where the province was in hostile array, one side against another.
Hitherto the discalced Franciscan religious of this province have had charge of their spiritual matters.
The ship has anchored in the province of Ylocos, eighty leguas from here, as the weather does not permit it to come to this port.