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What is another word for province?

Need synonyms for province? Here's a list of similar words from our thesaurus that you can use instead.

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A principal administrative division of a country or empire

An underdeveloped non-metropolitan region, area or district

A region consisting of wilderness or backcountry

An area of special knowledge, interest, or responsibility

A place, especially in a town or city and having a particular character or use

An extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single authority

The scope or extent of something, typically of one's interest or control

A category having attributes in common while differentiated from others by kind, type, or quality

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A principal administrative division of a country or empire

“Battambang became a prosperous province in the 1990s, and the city benefited from extensive private investment from nearby Thailand.”

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An underdeveloped non-metropolitan region, area or district

non-metropolitan areas

non-metropolitan counties

rest of the country

middle America

middle England

“Does he think we are hicks from the Province or something?”

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A region consisting of wilderness or backcountry

“In the wild province, vast sweeping moors and bushy dunes are buffeted by Cape Cod's deadly sea, the site of one thousand known shipwrecks.”

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An area of special knowledge, interest, or responsibility

specialty^US

speciality^UK

area of responsibility

field of concentration

labor^US

labour^UK

endeavour^UK

endeavor^US

behavior^US

behaviour^UK

theatre^UK

theater^US

millstone round one's neck

performance of one's duties

object of the exercise

why and wherefore

end purpose

the why and wherefore

blood, sweat, and tears

unwanted responsibility

thorn in one's side

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“Mr. Holloway said it was not his province to decide on his own jurisdiction.”

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A place, especially in a town or city and having a particular character or use

administrative division

geographical location

this neck of the woods

favorite gathering place

customary territory

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An extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single authority

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The scope or extent of something, typically of one's interest or control

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A category having attributes in common while differentiated from others by kind, type, or quality

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What is another word for province?

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