provincial

From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”).

• IPA^(key): /pɹɒvinʃəl̩/

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provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

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.
   • 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson

     […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
   • 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody

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

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

   a provincial synod

7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

• provincially

provincial (plural provincials)

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. (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.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:

     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 country bumpkin.

provincial (masculine and feminine plural provincials)

1. provincial

From Latin provincialis.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal/

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provincial (feminine singular provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)

1. provincial

• provincialement
• provincialisme

provincial m (plural provinciaux)

1. people from the provinces/regions

• “provincial” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

provincial (plural provinciais, comparable)

1. provincial

provincial (plural provinciales)

1. provincial