Usually means: Administrative division within a country.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word province:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. province: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. province: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. province: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. province: Collins English Dictionary
  5. province: Vocabulary.com
  6. Province, province: Wordnik
  7. province: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Province, province: Wiktionary
  9. province: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. province: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. province: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Province, province: Dictionary.com
  13. province: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. province: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Province (Canada), Province (China), Province (Spain), Province (disambiguation), Province (geology), Province (song), Province, The Province (film), The Province: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Province: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. province: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. province: Rhymezone
  19. province, province (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. province: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. province: Free Dictionary
  22. province: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. province: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. province: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. province: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Province (geology), province: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Province: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. province: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.
noun:  An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.
noun:  (historical, Ancient Rome, Roman Empire) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor or prefect.
noun:  (Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.
noun:  (in the plural, chiefly with definite article) The parts of a country outside its national capital.
noun:  (geology) A major region defined by common geologic attributes and history.
noun:  An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.
noun:  A surname.

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