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; narrown. 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.