provincial

[ pruh-vin-shuhl ]

/ prəˈvɪn ʃəl /

adjective

belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.

of or relating to the provinces: provincial customs; provincial dress.

having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; parochial: a provincial point of view.

(often initial capital letter) Fine Arts. noting or pertaining to the styles of architecture, furniture, etc., found in the provinces, especially when imitating styles currently or formerly in fashion in or around the capital: Italian Provincial.

History/Historical. of or relating to any of the American provinces of Great Britain.

noun

a person who lives in or comes from the provinces.

a person who lacks urban sophistication or broad-mindedness.

Ecclesiastical.

the head of an ecclesiastical province.
a member of a religious order presiding over the order in a given district or province.

Nearby words

providing, province, provincetown, provincetown print, provincewide, provincial, provincial council, provincial police, provincialism, provincialist, provinciality

Origin of provincial

1300–50; Middle English (noun and adj.) < Latin prōvinciālis. See province, -al¹

SYNONYMS FOR provincial

3 rural, small-town.

Related forms

pro·vin·cial·ly, adverbin·ter·pro·vin·cial, adjectivenon·pro·vin·cial, adjectivenon·pro·vin·cial·ly, adverb

qua·si-pro·vin·cial, adjectivequa·si-pro·vin·cial·ly, adverbsem·i·pro·vin·cial, adjectivesem·i·pro·vin·cial·ly, adverbsub·pro·vin·cial, adjective, nounun·pro·vin·cial, adjectiveun·pro·vin·cial·ly, adverb

Can be confused

providential provincial

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Examples from the Web for interprovincial

Mats are made at both Casiguran and Baler, and enter to a small extent, the interprovincial trade with neighboring provinces.
Philippine Mats|Hugo H. Miller

British Dictionary definitions for interprovincial (1 of 2)

interprovincial

/ (ˌɪntəprəˈvɪnʃəl) /

adjective

conducted between or involving two or more provinces

British Dictionary definitions for interprovincial (2 of 2)

provincial

/ (prəˈvɪnʃəl) /

adjective

of or connected with a province

characteristic of or connected with the provinces; local

having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to people living in the provinces; rustic or unsophisticated; limited

NZ denoting a football team representing a province, one of the historical administrative areas of New Zealand

noun

a person lacking the sophistications of city life; rustic or narrow-minded individual

a person coming from or resident in a province or the provinces

the head of an ecclesiastical province

the head of a major territorial subdivision of a religious order

Derived Forms

provinciality (prəˌvɪnʃɪˈælɪtɪ), nounprovincially, adverb

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