Provo
A city, the county seat of Utah County, Utah, United States.
Proper noun
- A city, the county seat of Utah County, Utah, United States.
- When LGBTQ students, alumni and friends gathered off campus at a park in Provo, Utah, for a back-to-school event last weekend, they were met by dozens of protesters. - 2022 September 7, Nicole Chavez, Amanda Musa,...
- NPR spoke with more than 30 people at the DHS career expo held in Provo last week. - 2025 September 26, Ximena Bustillo, “Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs”, in NPR, archived...
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fall River County, South Dakota.
Origin
* The city in Utah is named after the mountain man and trapper Étienne Provost. * The city in South Dakota is named after Bill Provost, Sr., an early resident.
Derived
Proper noun historical
- A Dutch counterculture movement of the 1960s.
Origin
From Dutch Provo, shortened from provoceren (“to provoke”), from French provoquer.
Proper noun Entry 3
- A surname
- Certificate of Ilypolite Lefever and wife Mary, that they have agreed to sell and convey to George Provo, late of the Parish of St. Martins in the Feilds, Co. of Middlesex, England, now of New Salem, cordwinder, their...
- Minister MacKay said during the Nova Scotia election campaign that Tory candidate Dwayne Provo was in the best position to help his constituents receive money from ACAO. - 2006, Canada. Parliament. Senate, Debates of...
- Fred Provo received the Flaherty Award as the football team's most inspirational player. He was also their leading rusher. Husky fans knew him as a hard driver with the speed of a gazelle. - 2013, W. Thomas Porter, Go...
Noun historical
- A member of this movement.
- Still, Daniel Cohn-Bendit has commented that without the example provided by the Dutch Provos to the young of other countries, Europe would have been a very different place in 1968. - 2017, Richard Ivan Jobs, Backpack...
- ‘Dude, we want to make a revolution!’ protested one German Provo. - 2023, Dorian Lynskey, “Bicycle Sharers of the World Unite!”, in Literary Review, number 524, page 17:
Forms
Noun in plural, informal
- A member of the Provisional IRA.
- The RUC broke up a Provo cell in Belfast.
- 'The Provos bombing a Glasgow pub?' McCormack shook his head. - 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 210:
- Marcus Babington, whose father Henry (52) was shot dead by the Provos in a case of mistaken identity in Belfast in 1989, was one of those who criticised Mr Finucane, telling the Belfast Telegraph he can’t understand why...
Origin
Clipping of provisional + -o.