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
Provincial (not comparable)
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
• William Shakespeare,
With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
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.
• rural
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
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
20 April 2025
(noun) food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
