Provincial

//pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a province.

    "a provincial government"

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal. not-comparable, obsolete

    "With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes."

  3. 3
    Constituting a province.
  4. 4
    Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.

    "[…] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces."

  5. 5
    Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude

    "That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling."

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  1. 6
    Narrow; illiberal.
  2. 7
    Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.

    "a provincial synod"

  3. 8
    Limited in outlook; narrow.
Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of the provinces or their people wordnet
  2. 2
    of or associated with a province wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  2. 2
    a country person wordnet
  3. 3
    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.

    "The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population."

  4. 4
    (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order wordnet
  5. 5
    A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province. obsolete

    "Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?"

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  1. 6
    A country bumpkin.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.

Etymology 2

From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.

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