PROVINCE

noun a region of country; a tract; a district.

2. province ·noun the proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.

3. province ·noun a country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, ·esp. one remote from the capital.

4. province ·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.

5. province ·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.

6. province ·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.