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Prefecture vs. Province

Prefecture and Province Definitions

Prefecture

The district administered or governed by a prefect.

Province

A territory governed as an administrative or political unit of a country or empire.

Prefecture

An administrative district of some countries, especially China or Japan.

Province

(Ecclesiastical) A division of territory under the jurisdiction of a metropolitan.

Prefecture

The office or authority of a prefect.

Province

Provinces Areas of a country situated away from the capital or population center.
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Prefecture

The residence or housing of a prefect.

Province

An area of knowledge, activity, or interest
A topic falling within the province of ancient history.

Prefecture

The office or position of a prefect.

Province

The range of one's proper duties and functions; scope.

Prefecture

The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions.

Province

(Ecology) An area of land, less extensive than a region, having a characteristic plant and animal population.
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Prefecture

The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.

Province

Any of various lands outside Italy conquered by the Romans and administered by them as self-contained units.

Prefecture

The district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire)

Province

A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.

Prefecture

The office of prefect

Province

An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.
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Province

(Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor.

Province

(Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.

Province

(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order.

Province

The parts of a country outside its capital city.

Province

An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.

Province

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.

Province

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

Province

A region of country; a tract; a district.
Over many a tractof heaven they marched, and many a province wide.
Other provinces of the intellectual world.

Province

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.

Province

The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection.

Province

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.

Province

The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;
His state is in the deep south

Province

The proper sphere or extent of your activities;
It was his province to take care of himself

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