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  Prov

  noun

  Provo.
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  prov.

  abbreviation

  province.
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  Prov.

  abbreviation

  Provençal.

Prov

¹ American  

[prov] / prɒv /

noun

1. Provo.

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prov. ² American  

abbreviation

1. province.

2. provincial.

3. provisional.

4. provost.

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Prov. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Provençal.

2. Provence.

3. Proverbs.

4. Province.

5. Provost.

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Prov. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Bible Proverbs

2. Province

3. Provost

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prov. ² British  

abbreviation

1. province

2. provincial

3. provisional

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Etymology

Origin of Prov

By shortening from Provo or provisional

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Prov prov. Prov.

The largest donor is John Kruger, an Orange County entrepreneur and education reform advocate who has given $500,000 through his Irvine-based Prov.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2021

In India's Sind Prov ince a 500-rupee ceiling on dowries produced its inevitable economic effect: a black market in bridegrooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Raul Damonte Taborda had charged that Colonel Rottjer, while Interventor in Buenos Aires Prov ince, permitted fraudulent election practices, thereby disgracing the uniform he wore.

From Time Magazine Archive

Driven from Wuchang to Kweilin by Japanese bombers, it now carries on deep in the hills of southern Yunnan Prov ince.

From Time Magazine Archive

But charity does not tarry in bringing assistance to a friend who is suffering need, according to Prov.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

It comprises three provs., the N. or Dutch Brabant; Antwerp, a Belgian prov., inhabitants Flemings, cap.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Shells.   of the Caribbean prov.   of the Panamic.

From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt

Caucasia, a prov. of Russia, geographically divided into Cis-Caucasia on the European side, and Trans-Caucasia on the Asiatic side of the Caucasus, with an area about four times as large as England.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Milton. pros. prosody. coll., colloq. colloquially. min. mineralogy. prov. provincial. comp. comparative. mod. modern. q.v. which see. conch. conchology.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Behis`tun, a mountain in Irak-Ajemi, a prov. of Persia, on which there are rocks covered with inscriptions, the principal relating to Darius Hystaspes, of date about 515 B.C., bearing on his genealogy, domains, and victories.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

This custom was in obedience to Prov. xxxi.

From Hebrew Literature by Epiphanius Wilson

Thus the divine Wisdom says in Prov. viii.,

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson

The wise man, too, looks upon his disciples as his spiritual sons, Prov. iv.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Rot is a strong word, ordinarily esteemed coarse, but on occasion capable of approved emphatic use; as, "the name of the wicked shall rot," Prov. x, 7; decay and decompose are now common euphemisms.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

Records of occurrence.—Specimens examined, 5, all from Cuba, as follows: Pinar del Río Prov.:

From North American Yellow Bats, 'Dasypterus,' And a List of the Named Kinds Of the Genus Lasiurus Gray by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall