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province

1. a territory governed as a unit of a country or empire

2. a district, territory, or region

3. those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture

4. Ecology a subdivision of a region, characterized by a particular fauna and flora

5. an area or branch of learning, activity, etc.

6. RC Church Church of England an ecclesiastical territory, usually consisting of several dioceses, and having an archbishop or metropolitan at its head

7. a major administrative and territorial subdivision of a religious order

8. History a region of the Roman Empire outside Italy ruled by a governor from Rome

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province [′präv·əns]

(oceanography)

An area composed of a grouping of like bathymetric elements whose features are in obvious contrast with surrounding regions.