PROVINCIAL

provincial

Noun

  1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  2. 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.

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.
  3. Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
  4. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
  5. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
  6. limited in outlook; narrow


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