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# province

«province» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large part of a country with its own local government…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a province, provinces)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A large part of a country with its own local government, like Ontario in Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#m1)

2) the provinces (UK, plural) All of a country outside the capital city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#m2)

3) An area of knowledge or responsibility: «Cooking is Dad's province.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#m3)

4) (church) A group of dioceses under an archbishop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography Canada has ten provinces and three territories; Ireland has four old provinces (Leinster, Munster, Connacht, Ulster); South Africa and China have provinces. Phrases: «the province of Quebec», «in the provinces», «outside my province».

### examples

- Canada is made up of provinces and territories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#x1)
- Ontario is the most populous province of Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#x2)
- Ireland has four provinces, including Munster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#x3)
- My cousins live out in the provinces, far from London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#x4)
- Gardening is Granny's province. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#x5)
- That question is outside my province, ask the science teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#x6)
- The archbishop leads the church province. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#x7)
- Long, long ago there was a large plain called Adachigahara, in the province of Mutsu in Japan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/#x8)

### note

Countable. Adjective «provincial» (of a province; also, rudely, narrow-minded or not like the big city). Canada: «provinces»; Australia: «states»; USA: «states». Northern Ireland is sometimes called «the Province».

### In the corpora

- [In Canada the provinces rate films; ratings such as 14A mean under-14s must be with an adult.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/15/)
- [In Europa Universalis 5, colonising looks like filling empty provinces with settlers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/14-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/3/)
- [And from Judea, a Roman province, the teaching of Jesus spread along Roman roads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/8/)
- [So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.745/)
- [She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «province» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/province/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.