2. Noun. The part of a country outside of the capital, major cities, etc., and regarded as being rustic or parochial; a hinterland. ''See'' provincial. ¹
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Definition of Provinces
1. province [n] - See also: province
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provinces
Literary usage of Provinces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Powers not specifically given to the provinces are reserved to the Dominion, ...
The North America Act apportions representation to the several provinces on ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Success was on the side of the Catholics and the new provinces. ... Organization of
the provinces was completed, and an edict granting provincial diets was ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Her willingness, in some cases, to allow the continuance of separate conditions
of existence in particular provinces was simply and solely a matter of ..."
4. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"CHAPTER I GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LATER PROPRIETARY Provinces OUR review
of the provinces which were founded by CHAP, trading companies at the ..."
5. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"The public and the private sacrifices in the provinces, which were not under the
same regulations with those of the capital, continued to take place. ..."
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