Provo

名词 n. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹəʊ.vəʊ/    美 /ˈpɹoʊ.voʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A member of this movement. historical
    — 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.
  2. A member of the Provisional IRA. in-plural,informal,often
    — The RUC broke up a Provo cell in Belfast.
专有名词
  1. A Dutch counterculture movement of the 1960s. historical
  2. 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.
  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 dividend[…]
  4. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fall River County, South Dakota.

词形变化

Provos plural provo alternative Provos plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Provoan

词源

词源 1
From Dutch Provo, shortened from provoceren (“to provoke”), from French provoquer.
词源 2
Clipping of provisional + -o.
词源 3
* 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.
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