Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɹɒvinʃəl̩/
provincial
- Of or pertaining to a province.
- a provincial government
- a provincial dialect
- Constituting a province.
- 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.
- 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson
- 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.
- 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody
- Narrow; illiberal.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
- a provincial synod
- Limited in outlook; narrow.
- French: provincial
- German: provinziell, provinzial
- Italian: provinciale
- Portuguese: provincial
- Russian: провинциальный
- Spanish: provincial
- Portuguese: interiorano, provinciano
- Spanish: provinciano
provincial (plural provincials)
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- (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.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:
- A country bumpkin.
Provincial
Adjective
provincial (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
- William Shakespeare,
- With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
- William Shakespeare,
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