provincial
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
The English word “provincial” has 10 meanings listed here.
adjective
- 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; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
- Backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
noun
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- 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 constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
- A country bumpkin.
Etymology
From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.
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