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Provo¹

  • /ˈpɹəʊ.vəʊ/ UK
  • /ˈpɹoʊ.voʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊvəʊ

Where it comes from

From Dutch Provo, shortened from provoceren (“to provoke”), from French provoquer.

proper noun

  1. historical A Dutch counterculture movement of the 1960s.

noun Provos · provo

  1. 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.

Provo²

  • /ˈpɹəʊ.vəʊ/ UK
  • /ˈpɹoʊ.voʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊvəʊ

Where it comes from

Clipping of provisional + -o.

noun Provos

  1. in plural, informal, often A member of the Provisional IRA. The RUC broke up a Provo cell in Belfast.

Provo³

  • /ˈpɹəʊ.vəʊ/ UK
  • /ˈpɹoʊ.voʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊvəʊ

Where it comes from

* 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.

proper noun

  1. 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.
  2. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fall River County, South Dakota.

Provo⁴

  • /ˈpɹəʊ.vəʊ/ UK
  • /ˈpɹoʊ.voʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊvəʊ

proper noun

  1. 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[…]

provo⁵

noun provos

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Provo (“member of Dutch counterculture movement”). In this respect, they lag behind Amsterdam's provos, Western Europe's hippies, who once tried to prove a point about communal property: […]

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name city in Utah

日本語プロボ Purobo, プロヴォ Purovo
中文普羅沃 /普罗沃 Pǔluówò
हिन्दीप्रोवो provo
DeutschProvo
ΕλληνικάΠρόβο Próvo
РусскийПрово Provo
العربيةبروفو brūfū
עבריתפרובו

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@misc{provo_2026,
  title = {provo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/provo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}