AI & ChatGPT searches , social queries for PROVINCE
What is the name meaning of PROVINCE. Phrases containing PROVINCE
See name meanings and uses of PROVINCE!
What is the name meaning of PROVINCE. Phrases containing PROVINCE
See name meanings and uses of PROVINCE!PROVINCE
PROVINCE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Myer.Spanish : habitational name from a village in Santander province, so named from mies ‘ripe grain’, ‘harvest time’ (Latin messis aestiva ‘summer harvest’).Dutch : nickname from mier ‘ant’; perhaps denoting an industrious person.Dutch and Belgian (van de Mier) : topographic name from a Brabantine form of moere ‘bog’, ‘marsh’ (modern moeras), or a habitational name from Moere in West Flanders.
Surname or Lastname
Spanish (Lestón)
Spanish (Lestón) : habitational name from any of four places called Lestó in A Coruña province, Galacia.English : unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from Leiston in Suffolk, so named from Old English lēg ‘beacon fire’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : occupational name for a person responsible for looking after oxen and castrated horses, from Middle English geld ‘sterile’, ‘barren (animal)’ (Old Norse geldr) + herde ‘herdsman’, Old English hierde (see Heard).Dutch : habitational name from the Dutch province of Gelderland or from Geldern in northwestern Germany (see Geller 1).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the city in West Yorkshire, or the place in Kent. The former is of British origin, appearing in Bede in the form Loidis ‘People of the LÄt’, (LÄt being an earlier name of the river Aire, meaning ‘the violent one’). Loidis was originally a district name, but was subsequently restricted to the city. The Kentish place name may be from an Old English stream name hlÌ„de ‘loud, rushing stream’.Daniel Leeds (1652–1720) was born in England, probably in Nottinghamshire, and emigrated to America with his father, Thomas, some time in the third quarter of the 17th century. The family settled in Shrewsbury, NJ, in 1677. Daniel made almanacs and was surveyor general of the Province of West Jersey in 1682. He was married four times and had numerous children.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a gate or ‘hatch’ (especially one leading into a forest), northern Middle English heck (Old English hæcc), or a habitational name from Great Heck in North Yorkshire, which is named with this word. Compare Hatch.German : topographic name from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’. This name is common in southern Germany and the Rhineland.Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Hec(q), a topographic name from Old French hec ‘gate’, ‘barrier’, ‘fence’ (compare 1), or a habitational name from a place named with this word.Shortened form of the Dutch surname van (den) Hecke, a habitational name from any of several places called ten Hekke in the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders.
Surname or Lastname
Spanish (Limón)
Spanish (Limón) : from Spanish limón ‘lemon’, hence possibly an occupational name for a grower or seller of the fruit.English : variant of Lemon.French : habitational name from Limon in Nièvre, Limont-Fontaine in Nord, or Limont in the Belgian province of Liège.
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long’, ‘tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus).Irish (Ulster (Armagh) and Munster) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan).Chinese : from the name of an official treasurer called Long, who lived during the reign of the model emperor Shun (2257–2205 bc). his descendants adopted this name as their surname. Additionally, a branch of the Liu clan (see Lau 1), descendants of Liu Lei, who supposedly had the ability to handle dragons, was granted the name Yu-Long (meaning roughly ‘resistor of dragons’) by the Xia emperor Kong Jia (1879–1849 bc). Some descendants later simplified Yu-Long to Long and adopted it as their surname.Chinese : there are two sources for this name. One was a place in the state of Lu in Shandong province during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc). The other source is the Xiongnu nationality, a non-Han Chinese people.Chinese : variant of Lang.Cambodian : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Kestel.German : from Middle High German kezzel ‘kettle’, ‘cauldron’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of copper cooking vessels, or alternatively a topographic and habitational name, from the same word in the sense ‘(ring-shaped) hollow’.Dutch and Belgian : habitational name from any of the places so named in the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Limburg or the Dutch province of North Brabant.
Surname or Lastname
Irish (Connacht)
Irish (Connacht) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó LáimhÃn, a reduced form of Ó FlaithimhÃn ‘descendant of FlaithimhÃn’, a personal name from a diminutive of flaith ‘prince’, ‘ruler’. This name is sometimes translated Hand, from the similarity of the reduced form to lámh ‘hand’.English : from the medieval female personal name Lavin(a) (from Latin Lavinia, of unknown origin)Spanish (LavÃn) : habitational name from Lavin, a place so named in the Santander province.Respelling of French Lavigne.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps a derivative of Middle English herkien ‘to listen’ (compare Harker 2).Dutch and Belgian : habitational name from St-Lambrechts-Herk or Herk-de-Stad in the Belgian province of Limburg, which take their names from the Herk river.Probably an altered spelling of German Harke.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; possibly a respelling of Kay 6, a shortened form of Scottish and Irish McKay.Korean : There is only one Chinese character and one clan for the Kye family name. According to the Kye family genealogy, the clan was founded by a Ming Dynasty government official named Kye SÅk-son who migrated to KoryÅ and settled in today’s Suan County of Hwanghae Province. The majority of bearers of the Kye family name today live in North Korea.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : possibly from a medieval personal name Tustin, derived via Old French Toustin from Old Norse Þorsteinn ‘Thor’s stone’. Compare Thurston.Altered form of French D’Estaing, a topographic name, with the preposition d(e) ‘from’, for someone who lived by a pond, Old French esta(i)ng, or a habitational name for someone from a place named with this word, for example Estaing in Aveyron and Hautes Pyrénées.French : habitational name, with preposition de, for someone from Stain in the Belgian province of Namur.
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÓileáin, a variant of Ó hAoláin, from a form of Faolán (with loss of the initial F-), a personal name representing a diminutive of faol ‘wolf’. Compare Whelan.English and Scottish : habitational name from Holland, a division of Lincolnshire, or any of the eight villages in various parts of England so called, from Old English hÅh ‘ridge’ + land ‘land’. The Scottish name may also be from places called Holland in Orkney, Houlland in Shetland, Hollandbush in Stirlingshire, and Holland-Hirst in the parish of Kirkintilloch.English, German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), Danish, and Dutch : regional name from Holland, a province of the Netherlands.
Surname or Lastname
Vietnamese (HÃ )
Vietnamese (HÃ ) : unexplained.Korean : there are two Ha clans, each with a unique Chinese character. The founding ancestor of the larger Ha clan was named Ha Kong-jin and settled in the Chinju area around ad 1010. Most of the modern descendants of Ha Kong-jin live in the KyÅngsang and ChÅlla provinces. The founding ancestor of the smaller of the two clans was named Ha HÅm, and he settled in the Taegu area after emigrating from Song China some time in the early part of the twelfth century. Most of the modern descendants of Ha HÅm still live in the Taegu area.Chinese : variant of Xia.English : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
Dutch and German (also North German von Holten)
Dutch and German (also North German von Holten) : habitational name from places so called, from Low German holt ‘holt’, ‘copse’, ‘small wood’. There is one in the Dutch province of Overijssel and another near Oberhausen in the Rhineland.Danish : variant of Holt.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, either from the definite singular form of holt ‘holt’, ‘small wood’ (see Holt), or from holt ‘hill’, ‘stony slope’.English : variant spelling of Holton.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Malin.Irish : variant of Mellon.Spanish (Aragonese Mallén) : habitational name from Mallén in Zaragoza province.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Mills.Dutch : habitational name from Milheeze in the province of North Brabant.Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Amilius or Amelis (Latinized forms of a Germanic name with the initial element amal ‘strength’, ‘vigor’) or of the Latin personal name Aemilius (see Milian).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a bookbinder, from Anglo-Norman French liur.English : possibly a topographic name (recorded in 1332 as le Lyghere) for someone who lived in a woodland clearing, from a derivative of Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.German : short form of a Germanic personal name formed with liut ‘people’, ‘tribe’ + hari ‘army’.German : possibly a topographic name formed with the element lir ‘swamp’, ‘bog’, or a habitational name from Lier, named with this word.Dutch : habitational name from Lier, in the Belgian province of Antwerp.Norwegian : habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named with the indefinite plural form of li ‘mountain slope’, ‘hillside’ (see Li 4).
Surname or Lastname
Reduced form of the Dutch surname van Galen, a habitational name, probably from Gaal in the province of North Brabant, or perhaps from the German town of Gahlen in North Rhine-Westphalia.English
Reduced form of the Dutch surname van Galen, a habitational name, probably from Gaal in the province of North Brabant, or perhaps from the German town of Gahlen in North Rhine-Westphalia.English : variant of Galyon.
Surname or Lastname
French
French : from the Old French word goi (Latin gubia) denoting a type of bill hook or knife used by vine-growers or coopers, hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of such implements.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of various places in France named Gouy, for example in Aisne or Pas-de-Calais.Galician : probably a habitational name from Goy in Lugo province, Galicia.German : northwestern variant of Gau.
PROVINCE
PROVINCE
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Great King
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Gold.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
The Highest Form of Absolute
Girl/Female
Indian
As Precious as Gold
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
Super
Boy/Male
Indian
Peace
Girl/Female
British, English, German
Prosperous; Happy; Hardworking
Boy/Male
English
Pasture; field.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Boulding, a patronymic from the Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of any of the various compound names with the first element bald ‘bold’.
Female
African
born on the road.
PROVINCE
PROVINCE
PROVINCE
PROVINCE
PROVINCE
n.
A district or local division, as of a province.
a.
A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.
n.
Domain; province; sphere.
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.
n.
A title originally conferred by the Mikado on the military governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of power the Shoguns (known to foreigners as Tycoons) became finally the virtual rulers of Japan. The title was abolished in 1867.
v. i.
To take upon one's self, or assume, any business, duty, or province.
n.
Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
n.
Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
n.
In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.
n.
One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.
n.
The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.
n.
Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers.
n.
A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the track upon which up-trains run. See Up-train.
n.
A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.
n.
The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.
n. pl.
A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively.
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.
n.
Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
n.
An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
prep.
The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.