Provo Definition

prōvō
provos
noun
A member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a faction of the Irish Republican Army.
Webster's New World
pronoun
(in the plural, with the) The Provisional IRA.
Wiktionary

A Dutch counterculture movement of the 1960s.

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A city in Utah.

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A city in South Dakota.
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Other Word Forms of Provo

Noun

Singular:
Provo
Plural:
provos

Origin of Provo

  • Shortening and alteration of Provisional (Wing) name of the faction

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Named after the mountain man and trapper Étienne Provost.

    From Wiktionary

  • Shortened from the Provisional Wing of the IRA.

    From Wiktionary

  • From French provocateur.

    From Wiktionary

Provo Sentence Examples

  • At the western base of the Wasatch are Salt Lake City, Ogden, Provo and other smaller towns, situated where streams issue from the mountains, soon to disappear on the desert plains.

  • In 1853 a sugar factory bought in England was erected at Provo, but no sugar was manufactured there, and none was successfully refined until 1889.

  • Before 1890 some districts in the state under a local option law had established free schools, but the general free school system was founded in 1890 by a law which consolidated all the districts in each city into one large school district and classified Salt Lake City as a city of the first class, and Ogden, Logan and Provo as cities of the second class for school purposes; in 1908-9 six county school districts of the first class were formed.

  • There is a state commission which promotes the establishment of free libraries and gymnasiums. The Mormons control Brigham Young University (1876) at Provo, Brigham Young College (1878) at Logan, the Latterday Saints University (1887) at Salt Lake City, and academies at Ogden, Ephraim, Castle Dale, Beaver and Vernal.

  • The state supports a Mental Hospital (1884, with provision for feeble-minded and non-insane epileptics since 1907) at Provo, a state Industrial School (1889) at Ogden and a state prison (1850) at Salt Lake City.

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