provincial

pro·vin·cial

She likes to refurbish provincial chairs into one of a kind furniture pieces.

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.

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provincial

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

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provincial

adjective

Of or relating to a province.
Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated: “Well-educated professional women … made me feel uncomfortably provincial” ( J.R. Salamanca )
Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.

noun

A native or inhabitant of the provinces.
A person who has provincial ideas or habits.

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pro·vin′cial·ly
adverb

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Adjective

(comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
limited in outlook; narrow

Noun

(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.
A country bumpkin.

Origin

From Latin provincialis (“province"), confer Provencal.

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