Province vs. Region
Provincenoun
A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.
Provincenoun
An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.
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(Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor.
Provincenoun
(Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.
Provincenoun
The parts of a country outside its capital city.
Provincenoun
An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.
Provincenoun
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.
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A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
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A region of country; a tract; a district.
Provincenoun
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.
Provincenoun
The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
Provincenoun
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.
Provincenoun
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;
Provincenoun
the proper sphere or extent of your activities;
Provincenoun
a principal administrative division of a country or empire
Provincenoun
Northern Ireland
Provincenoun
a district under an archbishop or a metropolitan.
Provincenoun
a territory outside Italy under a Roman governor.
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the whole of a country outside the capital, especially when regarded as lacking in sophistication or culture
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an area of special knowledge, interest, or responsibility
Province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman provincia, which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy.
Regionnoun
Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
Regionnoun
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
Regionnoun
(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
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(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
Regionnoun
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
Regionnoun
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
Regionnoun
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
Regionnoun
One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
Regionnoun
Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.
Regionnoun
The upper air; the sky; the heavens.
Regionnoun
The inhabitants of a district.
Regionnoun
Place; rank; station.
Regionnoun
the extended spatial location of something;
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a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve;
Regionnoun
a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth;
Regionnoun
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of');
Regionnoun
a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;
Region
In geography, regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography). Geographic regions and sub-regions are mostly described by their imprecisely defined, and sometimes transitory boundaries, except in human geography, where jurisdiction areas such as national borders are defined in law.
