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1. (adj.) provincial
belonging or peculiar to a particular province or provinces; local.
2. provincial
of or pertaining to the provinces.
3. provincial
rustic, narrow, or illiberal; unsophisticated; parochial.
4. provincial
(often cap.) of or pertaining to styles of furniture, architecture, etc., developed in the provinces, esp. when based on styles originating in or around the capital:
Italian provincial.
5. (n.) provincial
a person who lives in or comes from the provinces.
6. provincial
a person lacking in urban sophistication or broad-mindedness.
7. provincial
the head of an ecclesiastical province.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME (n. and adj.) < L prōvinciālis. See province , -al1)
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| Definition of 'provincial' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) provincial
(Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
"the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
2. (adj) peasant, provincial, bucolic
a country person
3. (adj) provincial
of or associated with a province
"provincial government"
4. (adj) provincial
characteristic of the provinces or their people
"deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
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1. (adjective) provincial
relating to a province
a provincial government
2. provincial
(of people or ideas) old-fashioned or unsophisticated
a provincial view of the world
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) provincial
of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect
2. (adj) provincial
exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal
3. (adj) provincial
of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod
4. (adj) provincial
of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal
5. (noun) provincial
a person belonging to a province; one who is provincial
6. (noun) provincial
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
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Sense: a division of a country, empire etc
Britain was once a Roman province.
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 Afrikaans: provinsiaal |
 Arabic: إقْليمي |
 Bulgarian: провинциален |
 Brazilian: provinciano |
 Czech: provincionální |
 German: provinziell |
 Danish: provinsiel; provins- |
 Greek: επαρχιακός |
 Spanish: provincial |
 Estonian: maa- |
 Farsi: ایالتی؛ استانی |
 Finnish: maakunnallinen |
 French: provincial |
 Hebrew: מֶחוֹזִי |
 Hindi: प्रान्त से संबंधित |
 Hungarian: vidéki(es) |
 Indonesian: provinsial |
 Icelandic: héraðs-; landsbyggðar- |
 Italian: provinciale |
 Japanese: 地方の |
 Korean: 주, 도, 지방의, 촌스러운, 지방에서 볼 수 |
 Lithuanian: provincijos, provincialus |
 Latvian: provinces-; provinciāls |
 Malay: wilayah |
 Dutch: provinciaal |
 Norwegian: provins-, fylkes-, provin |
 Polish: prowincjonalny |
 Persian: ایالتی؛ استانی |
 Pashto: ايالتى ، ساحه |
 Portuguese: provinciano |
 Romanian: provincial |
 Russian: провинциальный |
 Slovak: provinciálny |
 Slovenian: pokrajinski |
 Serbian: provincijski |
 Swedish: regional, provins- |
 Thai: ประจำจังหวัด |
 Turkish: eyalete/taşraya ait |
 Taiwanese: 省的 |
 Ukrainian: провінційний; периферійни |
 Urdu: صوبائي |
 Vietnamese: cấp tỉnh |
 Chinese: 省的 |
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