Province vs. Territory
Provincenoun
A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.
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An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.
Provincenoun
(Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor.
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(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.
Provincenoun
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.
Territorynoun
A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.
Territorynoun
(Canada) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
Territorynoun
A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
Territorynoun
(ecology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
Territorynoun
The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
Territorynoun
A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
Territorynoun
A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
Territorynoun
A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.
Territorynoun
An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.
Territorynoun
A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
Territorynoun
The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company.
Territorynoun
In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.
Territorynoun
a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
Territorynoun
an area of knowledge or interest;
Territorynoun
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state;
Territory
A territory is an administrative division, usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state. In most countries, a territory is an organized division of an area that is controlled by a country but is not formally developed into, or incorporated into, a political unit of the country that is of equal status to other political units that may often be referred to by words such as or or .
