English Explanatory Dictionary

provincial

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

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.

adj

Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.

Pronunciation

/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/ en-us-provincial.ogg

Word forms

provincial more provincial most provincial provincials

Etymology

From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.

Derived words

comprovincial ecoprovincial extraprovincial interprovincial intraprovincial multiprovincial nonprovincial provincialate provincial capital provincial council provincialist provinciality provincialization provincialize provincially provincial park subprovincial transprovincial unprovincial

Translations

Armenian: գավառական Finnish: maalaismainen Finnish: maalainen Finnish: hiippakunnallinen Finnish: arkkihiippakunnallinen Finnish: kapeakatseinen Finnish: nurkkakuntainen Georgian: პროვინციული Greek: επαρχιώτικος Greek: χωριάτικος Spanish: provinciano Spanish: paleto Thai: บ้านนอก Hungarian: provinciális

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