provincial
adjective
belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local.
provincials
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pluralof provincial.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He taxed provincials on the amount of olive oil they exported.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
They were inconspicuous, dressed like Russian provincials in parkas and tennis shoes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2018
Young German provincials such as the philosophers Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Johann Gottfried von Herder—the fathers, respectively, of economic and cultural nationalism—simmered with resentment toward cosmopolitan universalists.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 25, 2016
In our bodies, in our communities, in our social classes, we are all provincials, all in need of correction and amplification by the encounter with other views and practices of life.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2016
He knew how well the provincials were arming, preparing to welcome him.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
