Provincial

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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