Provincial meaning
Narrow; limited; unsophisticated.
A provincial outlook.
adjective
The definition of provincial is something related to a specific country or geographic area or someone or something that is small-minded and unsophisticated.
An example of provincial is a specific style of French furniture.
An example of provincial is a person who has never left his small town.
adjective
A provincial person; esp., a narrow-minded or unsophisticated person.
noun
A native of a province.
noun
Of or belonging to a province.
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Having the ways, speech, attitudes, etc. of a certain province.
adjective
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.
adjective
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
adjective
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
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Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
adjective
Limited in outlook; narrow.
adjective
(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.
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Of or relating to a province.
adjective
Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated.
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Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.
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A native or inhabitant of the provinces.
noun
A person who has provincial ideas or habits.
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Of or like that of rural provinces; countrified; rustic.
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