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provincial
[ pruh-vin-shuhl ]
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.
Synonyms: small-town, rural
- (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.
provincial
/ prəˈvɪnʃəl; prəˌvɪnʃɪˈælɪtɪ /
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
- 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, noun
- proˈvincially, adverb
Other Words From
- pro·vincial·ly adverb
- inter·pro·vincial adjective
- nonpro·vincial adjective
- nonpro·vincial·ly adverb
- quasi-pro·vincial adjective
- quasi-pro·vincial·ly adverb
- semi·pro·vincial adjective
- semi·pro·vincial·ly adverb
- subpro·vincial adjective noun
- unpro·vincial adjective
- unpro·vincial·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of provincial1
Example Sentences
For provincial authorities, the coal plant projects are a surefire way to generate jobs and boost economic growth and investment on paper.
Naheed Nenshi is making the three-hour trip to a meeting of the provincial legislature in Edmonton, and I’m along for the ride via speakerphone.
When China began to ease domestic travel and lockdown restrictions in April, China’s city and provincial governments launched promotional campaigns to stimulate consumer spending.
The journalist’s brother told CPJ he reported the disappearance to local police and the provincial prosecutor’s office but had yet to receive any information about Ibraimo’s whereabouts and did not know if he was still alive.
The second is to do so in a manner in keeping with the demands of a famously provincial fan base — to win it, in other words, like Kobe Bryant.
She tells us how little the federal and provincial governments have done to regulate the tar sands.
Twenty years ago it would have been laughable to believe that English provincial cuisine could match French provincial cuisine.
In a province with tens of thousands of Iraq Security Forces, Tikrit, the provincial capital, was seized without a fight.
And on Tuesday, a candidate for a provincial office and nine of his supporters were kidnapped and killed by the Taliban.
In July, parliament lowered its quota for female lawmakers on provincial councils from 25 percent to 20 percent.
He prepared a glossary of provincial and archological words, intended for a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary.
At this same time they seized in Nangasaqui a servant of the father provincial, Matheo Couros, who was washing his clothes.
He was a member of the first provincial congress, and eighteen years lieutenant governor of the state of New York.
True, she had never met the provincial type before, but she doubted if Rosewater had produced a crop of Isabel Otises.
She had no wish to emulate, but neither did she relish feeling provincial, a chit, an outsider.
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