province
province is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- noun. 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.
- noun. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
- noun. A region of country; a tract; a district.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
- noun. 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.
- noun. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
"his state is in the deep south"
- noun. the proper sphere or extent of your activities
"it was his province to take care of himself"
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