Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, n.
1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
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2. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, a. [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.
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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.
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3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the
jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a
provincial synod. --Ayliffe.
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4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.]
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With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
provincial
adj 1: of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
2: characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply
provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company
I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial
attitudes" [ant: cosmopolitan]
n 1: (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"
2: a country person [syn: peasant, bucolic]
WordNet (r) 2.0
124 Moby Thesaurus words for "provincial":
Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, authoritarian, awkward,
backwoods, backwoodsman, beg, beglerbeg, bey, bigot, bigoted,
boorish, borne, bucolic, bumpkin, burgrave, campestral, cloddish,
closed, clown, collector, confined, constricted, countrified,
country, country bumpkin, country cousin, countryman, countrywoman,
cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, dey, dialect, dialectal,
eparch, exarch, fanatical, farm, fellah, gauleiter,
geographically limited, governor, governor-general, hayseed, hick,
hidebound, hind, homespun, idiomatic, illiberal, ingenuous,
innocent, insular, khedive, lieutenant governor, limited, little,
little-minded, local, localized, loutish, lowland, mean,
mean-minded, mean-spirited, muzhik, nabob, naive, narrow,
narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited,
nawab, nearsighted, oafish, of a place, outland, palatine,
parochial, pastoral, peasant, peon, petty, proconsul, purblind,
regional, rude, rural, rustic, satrap, sectarian, shortsighted,
small, small-minded, small-town, stadtholder, straitlaced, stuffy,
subahdar, tetrarch, topical, uncatholic, uncharitable,
uncultivated, uncultured, ungenerous, ungraceful, uninformed,
unliberal, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated, upland, vali,
vernacular, vice-king, viceroy, wali, yokel
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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