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provincial
/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
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What does provincial mean?
adjective
- Of or pertaining to a province.
- Constituting a province.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
More meanings (8)
adjective
- Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
- Backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
- (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
noun
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- 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.
- A country bumpkin.
- (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
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With the agreement of all the Parties, the Council may include state and provincial government or private sector representatives in its subgroups.
These youthful and unbalanced reformers, in conjunction with older but no less ill-balanced provincial politicians, may be said to represent Young China.
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Of old, more than once, she had gone, for entertainment’s sake and in brilliant company, to a fair in a provincial town.
Congress regulates the principal measures of the national Government, and all the details of the administration are reserved to the provincial legislatures.
A native regiment of twelve hundred men was raised, and the command given to Col. Middleton, a brave and accomplished provincial officer.