Antonyms for province
ˈprɒv ɪnsprov·ince

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1. province

   Antonyms:
   metropolis, centre, capital

   Synonyms:
   tract, region, department, section, sphere, domain, territory

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1. • Sphere

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1. state, provincenoun

   the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

   "his state is in the deep south"

   Synonyms:
   nation, country, state, responsibility, res publica, body politic, commonwealth, land, state of matter

2. province, responsibilitynoun

   the proper sphere or extent of your activities

   "it was his province to take care of himself"

   Synonyms:
   state, responsibility, duty, responsibleness, obligation

How to use province in a sentence?

1. Phil Robertson:

   Arakan Army's hard to fathom that a government and its military could actually commit crimes against humanity against two different ethnic groups -- the Rohingya and Rakhine State -- in one province but somehow Myanmar has managed to do it, and now they need to be held accountable for it.

2. Barnett Rubin:

   Pakistan's attitude to militant groups fighting in Afghanistan has evolved ... China has played a role in Pakistan's evolution because China is very concerned about militants from Xinjiang province receiving training in Pakistan.

3. Janelle Lane:

   We are going to be expecting some rain for most of the province going into the weekend; whether or not it hits these two fires, we are not 100 percent sure.

4. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders:

   It's a state and a federal issue. The federal issue is that we should remove marijuana from the Controlled Substance Act. That's a federal decision, the state decision is that we live in a federal system of government where issues like tobacco and alcohol are significantly regulated by the states. And I think that is a province of the states.

5. Ben Embarek:

   We have data for the whole province and also beyond -- looking at data from other neighboring provinces and going back several months... There is a lot of stuff to look at. It's important to be able in the months before [ the outbreak ] to go down to a much lower level, and try to pick up signals, and see was there anything there that we can we could link.

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