- 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 of provincial
Middle English prouyncial from Middle French from Classical Latin provincialis- a native of a province
- a provincial person; esp., a narrow-minded or unsophisticated person