| Main Entry: | province |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of rule, responsibility |
Synonyms: |
arena, bailiwick, business, calling, canton, capacity, champaign, charge, colony, concern, county, demesne, department, dependency, district, division, domain, dominion, duty, employment, field, function, jurisdiction, line, office, orbit, part, post, pursuit, realm, region, role, section, shire, sphere, terrain, territory, tract, walk, work, zone |
| Main Entry: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity |
Synonyms: |
assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, hap, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, office function, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | arena |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of activity |
Synonyms: |
battlefield, battleground, domain, field, province, realm, scene, sector, sphere, territory, theatre |
| Main Entry: | calling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chosen profession |
Synonyms: |
art, business, career, craft, day gig, do*, dodge*, employment, gig, go*, handicraft, hang*, life's work, lifework, line, mission, métier, nine-to-five, occupation, play, province, pursuit, racket, rat race, slot, swindle*, trade, vocation, walk of life, work |
Antonyms: |
amusement, avocation, entertainment, hobby, recreation |
| Main Entry: | class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kind, sort, category |
Synonyms: |
branch, brand, breed, cast, caste, character, classification, collection, color, degree, denomination, department, description, designation, distinction, division, domain, estate, family, feather, frame, genre, genus, grade, grain, grouping, hierarchy, humor, ilk, kidney, league, make, mold, name, nature, order, origin, property, province, quality, range, rank, rate, school, sect, section, selection, set, source, species, sphere, standing, status, stripe, style, suit, temperament, value, variety |
| Main Entry: | colony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | community |
Synonyms: |
antecedents, clearing, dependency, dominion, mandate, new land, offshoot, outpost, possession, protectorate, province, satellite, settlement, subject state, swarm, territory |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area; area away from city |
Synonyms: |
back country, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, countryside, cow country, farmland, farms, forests, green belt, hinterland, middle of nowhere, outback, outdoors, province, sticks, up country, wide open space, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
Antonyms: |
city, metropolis, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | department |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of interest, expertise |
Synonyms: |
activity, administration, assignment, avocation, bailiwick, berth, bureau, business, capacity, class, classification, domain, dominion, duty, field, function, incumbency, jurisdiction, line, niche, occupation, office, province, realm, responsibility, slot, specialty, sphere, spot, station, vocation, walk of life, wing |
| Main Entry: | distance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval, range |
Synonyms: |
absence, ambit, amplitude, area, bit, breadth, compass, country mile, expanse, extension, extent, far piece, farness, gap, good ways, heavens, hinterland, horizon, lapse, length, objective, orbit, outpost, outskirts, provinces, purlieu, purview, radius, reach, remoteness, remove, scope, separation, size, sky, space, span, spread, stretch, sweep, way, width |
| Main Entry: | domain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of expertise, rule |
Synonyms: |
authority, bailiwick, concern, demesne, department, discipline, district, dominion, empire, estate, field, home park, jurisdiction, land, neck of the woods, occupation, orbit*, power, province, quarter, realm, region, scope, slot, specialty, sphere, stomping grounds, terrain, territory, turf, walk, wing |