provincial

/pɹɒvinʃəl̩/

noun

  1. 1

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

  2. 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. 3

    A country bumpkin.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to a province.

    “a provincial dialect”
  2. 2

    Constituting a province.

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    Narrow; illiberal.

  6. 6

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

    “a provincial synod”
  7. 7

    Limited in outlook; narrow.

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