Province vs Principality - What's the difference?
province | principality |
A subdivision of government usually one step below the national level; (Canada) one of ten of Canada's federated entities, recognized by the Constitution and having a separate representative of the Sovereign (compare territory).
A territorial area within a country.
A jurisdiction; a (literal or figurative) area of authority.
(British) Northern Ireland
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(obsolete) The state of being a prince or ruler; sovereignty, absolute authority.
A region or sovereign nation headed by a prince or princess.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 14:
(theology) A spiritual being, specifically in Christian angelology, the fifth level of angels, ranked above powers and below dominions.
As nouns the difference between province and principality
is that province is a subdivision of government usually one step below the national level; one of ten of Canada's federated entities, recognized by the Constitution and having a separate representative of the Sovereign (compare territory) while principality is the state of being a prince or ruler; sovereignty, absolute authority.As a proper noun province
is northern Ireland.province
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(wikipedia province)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* (English Citations of "province")Derived terms
* provincehood * provincewideCoordinate terms
* canton * county * department * oblast * shire * stateProper noun
principality
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Noun
(principalities)- At this time Russia consisted of a dozen or so principalities , which were frequently at war with one another.