provo means A Dutch counterculture movement of the 1960s.
provo is pronounced /ˈpɹəʊ.vəʊ/.
Etymology
From Dutch Provo, shortened from provoceren (“to provoke”), from French provoquer.
name
- A Dutch counterculture movement of the 1960s.
- 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.”
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fall River County, South Dakota.
- 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[…]”
noun
- 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.”
- A member of the Provisional IRA.“The RUC broke up a Provo cell in Belfast.”