PROVINCE Copy link • PROVINCERegion, tract, regio (general term, a tract of country): provincia (a tract of country subdued, and annexed to, or incorporated with the conquering state; ☞ never to be used in any other sense): to divide a country into four providences, terram in quatuor regiones describere or dividere: to reduce a country to the form of a providence, terram in provinciae formam reducere; terram provinciam conficere (Liv., 27, 5). Office, munus omcium; partes; also by the pronoun meus, etc.; e.g., non est meum, it is not my providence.