Provincial
WordNet
adjective
(1) Characteristic of the provinces or their people
"Deeply provincial and conformist"
"In that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"
"Narrow provincial attitudes"
(2) Of or associated with a province
"Provincial government"
noun
(3) A country person
(4) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
"The general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay,
- Provincial airs and graces.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay,
- Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
- Ayliffe,
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
- Ayliffe,
- Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
- William Shakespeare,
- With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
- William Shakespeare,
- limited in outlook; narrow
Noun
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- (Roman Catholic Church): A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
- A country bumpkin.
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Adjective
provincial
- provincial