provincial
/pɹɒvinʃəl̩/
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 a province.
“a provincial dialect”
- 2
Constituting a province.
- 3
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- 4
Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
- 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.
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