'Provincial' definitions:
Definition of 'provincial'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
adjective
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]
noun
(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"
noun
Definition of 'Provincial'
From: GCIDE
- Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, n.
- 1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Provincial'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'provincial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agrarian,
- agrestic,
- agricultural,
- Arcadian,
- 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