Provincial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to a province.
  • adj. Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated: "Well-educated professional women ... made me feel uncomfortably provincial” ( J.R. Salamanca).
  • adj. Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.
  • n. A native or inhabitant of the provinces.
  • n. A person who has provincial ideas or habits.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
  • adj. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  • adj. Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
  • adj. limited in outlook; narrow
  • n. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A country bumpkin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province
  • adj. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
  • n. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  • n. 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 Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to a province; existing in a province; characteristic of a province: as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
  • Forming a province or territory appendant to a principal kingdom or state: as, provincial territory.
  • Pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an arch bishop; not ecumenical: as, a provincial council.
  • Exhibiting the manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province, or of the country as distinguished from the metropolis or larger cities; countrified; rustic; hence, not polished; narrow; unenlightened.
  • Restricted to a province; local.
  • n. A person belonging to a province; one from any part of the country except the metropolis or one of the larger cities.
  • n. In some religious orders, a monastic superior who has the general superintendence of his fraternity in a given district called a province.
  • Pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
  • A rosette of ribbons formerly worn on a shoe; a shoe-rose.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a country person
  • adj. of or associated with a province
  • n. (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
  • adj. characteristic of the provinces or their people
  • Equivalent
    poky    parochial    pokey    jerkwater    rustic    insular    one-horse    stay-at-home    bumpkinly    corn-fed   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    functionary    official   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    countrified    rude    illiberal    Provencal    local    narrow   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    local    colonial    municipal    ecclesiastical    Jewish    regional    rural