provincial
English
Etymology
From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹɒvinʃəl̩/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)
- Of or pertaining to a province.
- a provincial government
- a provincial dialect
- Constituting a province.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson
- […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.
- 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson
- Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
- 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody
- That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.
- 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody
- narrow; illiberal.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
- a provincial synod
- Limited in outlook; narrow.
Derived terms
Translations
of or pertaining to a province
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exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
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not cosmopolitan or polished
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of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province
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limited in outlook; narrow
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Noun
provincial (plural provincials)
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- (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.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:
- The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:
- A country bumpkin.
Catalan
French
Etymology
From Latin provincialis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal/
Audio (file)
Adjective
provincial (feminine singular provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)
Derived terms
- provincialement
- provincialisme
Further reading
- “provincial” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Spanish
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