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"
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Adjective



  1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
  2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
    • Thomas Babington Macaulay,
      Provincial airs and graces.
  3. 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.
  4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
  5. limited in outlook; narrow

Noun



  1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  2. (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.
  3. A country bumpkin.


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Adjective



provincial
  1. provincial
 
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