Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a province.
- adjective Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated.
- adjective Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.
- noun A native or inhabitant of the provinces.
- noun A person who has provincial ideas or habits.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
- A rosette of ribbons formerly worn on a shoe; a shoe-rose.
- Of or pertaining to a province; existing in a province; characteristic of a province: as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
- Forming a province or territory appendant to a principal kingdom or state: as, provincial territory.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an arch bishop; not ecumenical: as, a provincial council.
- Exhibiting the manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province, or of the country as distinguished from the metropolis or larger cities; countrified; rustic; hence, not polished; narrow; unenlightened.
- Restricted to a province; local.
- noun A person belonging to a province; one from any part of the country except the metropolis or one of the larger cities.
- noun In some religious orders, a monastic superior who has the general superintendence of his fraternity in a given district called a province.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- noun (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. - adjective Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province
- adjective Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
- adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
province ; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. - adjective Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- adjective Not
cosmopolitan ;countrified ; notpolished ;rude ; hence,narrow ;illiberal . - adjective Of or pertaining to an
ecclesiastical province, or to thejurisdiction of anarchbishop ; notecumenical ; as, a provincial synod. - adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to
Provence ;Provencal . - adjective limited in outlook; narrow
- noun A person belonging to a
province ; one who is provincial. - noun 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.
- noun A country
bumpkin .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a country person
- adjective of or associated with a province
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
- adjective characteristic of the provinces or their people
Etymologies
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Examples
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The primary assemblies, composed of the tenth of the general population, nominated the local _list of communal candidates_; electoral colleges, also nominated by them, selected from the _communal list_ the superior list of provincial candidates and from the _provincial list_, the list of national candidates.
History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840
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Together with the Afghan authorities, the coalition is deployed what we call provincial reconstruction teams, or PRTs, to four provinces with four more on the way.
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South Africa (Contralesa) chairman Chief Mwelo Nonkonyane expressed concern at what he called the provincial government's campaign to oppose a referendum on whether East Griqualand should form a separate province.
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He was for two terms provincial of the province of Belgium, for one term provincial of that of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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And this myopic focus on domestic political activity looks so provincial from a global perspective.
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No, because what makes Fox so provincial is its utter lack of interest in the outside world in the first place, except where that world directly and obviously affects American power.
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No, because what makes Fox so provincial is its utter lack of interest in the outside world in the first place, except where that world directly and obviously affects American power.
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Blackmore and Oler are scheduled to appear in provincial court in Creston on Jan. 21.
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In Canada, adoption is within provincial/territorial jurisdiction, and thus the law differs from one province or territory to another.
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The Nova Scotia NDP has been close to majority territory for over a year now, hovering between 35 and 39% in provincial polls.
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bilby commented on the word provincial
Another WeirdNET special.
June 13, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word provincial
The provincials: those dogged but lumbering fellows who are never quite up with the fashions however much they perspire after them. -- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931.
December 24, 2008
mohitanand commented on the word provincial
characteristic of a limited perspective; not fashionable or sophisticated
Maggie's enthusiasm about her high school teams seemed provincial to her college classmates, all of whom were following a nationally ranked college team.
October 19, 2016