adjective
- of or belonging to a province
- having the ways, speech, attitudes, etc. of a certain province
- of or like that of rural provinces; countrified; rustic
- designating or of a style, esp. of 18th-cent. European furniture, that was characteristic of the provinces and was a simpler and plainer copy of the style characteristic of the capital and cultural centers
- narrow; limited; unsophisticated: a provincial outlook
Origin:
ME prouyncial < MFr < L provincialis