About The Word Provincial
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Provincial
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What's The Definition Of Provincial?
[n] a country person
[adj] characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" [adj] of or associated with a province; "provincial government" Synonyms | Synonyms for Provincial: bucolic | bumpkinly | corn-fed | hick | insular | jerkwater | one-horse | parochial | peasant | pokey | poky | rustic | stay-at-home(a) | unsophisticated Related Terms | Find terms related to Provincial: See Also | cottar | cotter | moujik | mujik | muzhik | muzjik | rustic Provincial In Webster's Dictionary \Pro*vin"cial\, a. [L. provincialis: cf. F.
provincial. See {Province}, and cf. {Provencal}.]
1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as,
a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province;
characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not
cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence,
narrow; illiberal. ``Provincial airs and graces.''
--Macaulay.
3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the
jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a
provincial synod. --Ayliffe.
4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.]
With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. --Shak.
\Pro*vin"cial\, n. 1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 2. (R. C. Ch.) 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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