Index of English words, starting with "pr"

(1) - Provider (n.) One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.

(1) - Providing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Provide

(1) - Province (n.) 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.
(2) - Province (n.) The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.
(3) - Province (n.) 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.
(4) - Province (n.) A region of country; a tract; a district.
(5) - Province (n.) A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
(6) - Province (n.) 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.

(1) - Provincial (n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
(2) - Provincial (n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
(3) - Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
(4) - Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
(5) - Provincial (a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
(6) - Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

(1) - Provincialism (n.) A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.