PROVINCIAL

provincial

(adjective) characteristic of the provinces or their people; “deeply provincial and conformist”; “in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial”; “narrow provincial attitudes”

provincial

(adjective) of or associated with a province; “provincial government”

peasant, provincial, bucolic

(noun) a country person

provincial

(noun) (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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

Provincial (not comparable)

(obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.

• William Shakespeare,

With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.

Etymology

Adjective

provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

Of or pertaining to a province.

Constituting a province.

Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.

Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude

Narrow; illiberal.

Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.

Limited in outlook; narrow.

Synonyms

• rural

Noun

provincial (plural provincials)

A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

(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.

A country bumpkin.

Source: Wiktionary

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Pro*vin"cial, a. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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