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Meaning of provincial

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

provincial

Pronunciation:/pɹɒvinʃəl̩/

noun

Definitions

  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

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to a province.

    Example: 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