provincial

UK /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/ US /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
adj 6noun 4

Definitions

adj

1

Of or pertaining to a province.

a provincial government

a provincial dialect

2

Constituting a province.

3

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

[…] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

4

Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.

5

Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.

That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.

noun

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.

The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.

3

A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.

Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?

4

A country bumpkin.

adj

1

Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.

With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.

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