provincial

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɹɒvinʃəl̩/

Adjective

provincial

1. Of or pertaining to a province.

   a provincial government

   a provincial dialect

2. Constituting a province.
3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
   • 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson

     […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
   • 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody

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

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

   a provincial synod

7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

Synonyms

• rural

Translations

• French: provincial
• German: provinziell, provinzial
• Italian: provinciale
• Portuguese: provincial
• Russian: провинциальный
• Spanish: provincial

Translations

• Portuguese: interiorano, provinciano

Translations

• Spanish: provinciano

Noun

provincial (plural provincials)

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. (Roman Catholicism) 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.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:

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

3. A country bumpkin.

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Provincial

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Adjective

provincial (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
   • William Shakespeare,

     With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.

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