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Provo en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/ˈpɹəʊ.vəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈpɹoʊ.voʊ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Dutch Provo, shortened from provoceren (“to provoke”), from French provoquer.
Meanings
(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 Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 104:
‘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:
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Provo en · PROPN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/ˈpɹəʊ.vəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈpɹoʊ.voʊ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Dutch Provo, shortened from provoceren (“to provoke”), from French provoquer.
Meanings
(historical) A Dutch counterculture movement of the 1960s.
Provo en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
/ˈpɹəʊ.vəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈpɹoʊ.voʊ/ (General-American)
Etymology
Clipping of provisional + -o.
Meanings
(in-plural, informal, often) A member of the Provisional IRA.
'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 the MP would want to be involved in such a commemoration. 2023 June 7, Cillian Sherlock, “O’Neill says Finucane will attend controversial IRA commemoration”, in Belfast Telegraph, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2025:
The RUC broke up a Provo cell in Belfast.
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Provo en · PROPN · etymology 3
Pronunciation
/ˈpɹəʊ.vəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈpɹoʊ.voʊ/ (General-American)
Etymology
* 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.
Meanings
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, “People dressed in angel wings shielded LGBTQ students attending BYU from protesters”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2022:
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 from the original on 23 Oct 2025:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fall River County, South Dakota.
nl Provo (city in Utah) · ar بروفو (city in Utah) · cs Provo (city in Utah) · ru Прово (city in Utah) · mr प्रोव्हो (city in Utah) · ja プロヴォ (city in Utah) · ja プロボ (city in Utah) · de Provo (city in Utah) · hi प्रोवो (city in Utah) · cmn 普羅沃 /普罗沃 (city in Utah) · pl Provo (city in Utah) · el Πρόβο (city in Utah) · he פרובו (city in Utah) · nv Tsétis Deezlíní (city in Utah) · th โปรโว (city in Utah)
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[…] 1899, William Nelson, Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey, page 547:
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 the Senate: Official Report (Hansard):
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 Huskies!: Celebrating the Washington Football Tradition, Triumph Books (IL), →ISBN, page 53: