Provo

Meanings

Noun

• A member of the Provisional IRA.
• A member of this movement.

Proper Noun

• A Dutch counterculture movement of the 1960s.
• city, county seat Utah County (county) Utah (state) USA (country).
• city South Dakota (state).

Origin

• Shortened from the provisional wing of the IRA.
• From Dutch Provo, shortened from provoceren, from French provoquer.
• Named after the mountain man and trapper Étienne Provost.
• Named after an early resident, Bill Provost, Sr..