Provincial

Quick meaning: Provincial is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to a province.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a province.

More Meanings

1. Constituting a province.
2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
3. Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
4. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
5. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
6. (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.
7. (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.

Example Sentences

a provincial synod

a provincial dialect

a provincial government

[…] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

Word Forms

• provincials

Synonyms for provincial

Depending on context, synonyms include bucolic, rustic, parochial, insular, unsophisticated, peasant.

Antonyms for provincial

Common opposites include cosmopolitan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include parochial, peasant, stay-at-home, bucolic, rustic, hick.

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