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English adjective: provincial | |||
| 1. | provincial of or associated with a province | ||
| Samples | Provincial government. | ||
| 2. | provincial characteristic of the provinces or their people | ||
| Samples | Deeply provincial and conformist. In that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial. Narrow provincial attitudes. | ||
| Similar | bumpkinly, corn-fed, hick, insular, jerkwater, one-horse, parochial, pokey, poky, rustic, stay-at-home, unsophisticated | ||
| Antonyms | cosmopolitan | ||
English noun: provincial | |||
| 1. | provincial (person) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order | ||
| Samples | The general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | functionary, official | ||
| Domain category | Church of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church | ||
| 2. | provincial (person) a country person | ||
| Synonyms | bucolic, peasant | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rustic | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cottar, cotter, moujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjik | ||
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