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Provincial
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Meaning
Adj
●
Of or
pertaining
to a province.
●
Constituting a province.
●
Exhibiting the ways or
manners
of a
province
;
characteristic
of the
inhabitants
of a
province
.
●
Not
cosmopolitan
;
backwoodsy
,
hick
,
yokelish
,
countrified
; not
polished
; rude
●
Narrow; illiberal.
●
Of or
pertaining
to an
ecclesiastical
province
, or to the
jurisdiction
of an
archbishop
; not ecumenical.
●
Limited in
outlook
; narrow.
●
Of or
pertaining
to Provence; Provençal.
Noun
●
A person
belonging
to a
province
; one who is provincial.
●
In 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.
●
A
constitution
issued
by the
head
of an
ecclesiastical
province.
●
A country bumpkin.
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Origin
provincial
English
provincialis
Latin
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Etym
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