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provincial
[pruh-vin-shuhl]
adjective
belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local.
the provincial newspaper.
of or relating to the provinces.
provincial customs; provincial dress.
having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; parochial.
a provincial point of view.
Synonyms: ,(often initial capital letter)noting or pertaining to the styles of architecture, furniture, etc., found in the provinces, especially when imitating styles currently or formerly in fashion in or around the capital.
Italian Provincial.
History/Historical.of or relating to any of the American provinces of Great Britain.
provincial
/ prəˈvɪnʃəl, prəˌvɪnʃɪˈælɪtɪ /
adjective
of or connected with a province
characteristic of or connected with the provinces; local
having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to people living in the provinces; rustic or unsophisticated; limited
denoting a football team representing a province, one of the historical administrative areas of New Zealand
noun
a person lacking the sophistications of city life; rustic or narrow-minded individual
a person coming from or resident in a province or the provinces
the head of an ecclesiastical province
the head of a major territorial subdivision of a religious order
Other Word Forms
- provincially adverb
- interprovincial adjective
- nonprovincial adjective
- nonprovincially adverb
- quasi-provincial adjective
- quasi-provincially adverb
- semiprovincial adjective
- semiprovincially adverb
- subprovincial adjective
- unprovincial adjective
- unprovincially adverb
- provinciality noun
- ˈԳ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of provincial1
Example Sentences
A minibus carrying schoolchildren has been swept away by heavy flooding in South Africa, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape provincial government has told the BBC.
Wood was sentenced to "two years less a day", a distinction which means he will serve his sentence in a provincial institution instead of a federal prison.
Krishna KC, the provincial chair of the Trekking Agents Association of Nepal in the western Gandaki province, says the trekking industry is in deep trouble.
The federal and provincial Conservative parties are legally different entities, though they belong to the same ideological tent, and Ford is leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party.
Not long after his ordination, he was named the Jesuit provincial for Argentina, which put him in charge of the order’s activities throughout the country.
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