Provincial

/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/ · adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a province..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

a provincial government

a provincial dialect

More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.

[…] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

a provincial synod

The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.

Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?

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Word Forms

• more provincial
• most provincial
• provincials

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