Definition of provincial Provincial

/pɹʌvɪˈnʃʌl/ - [pruvinshul] - pro•vin•cial

We found 22 definitions of provincial from 6 different sources.

What does provincial mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: provincials
provincial - (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
		functionary, official someone who administers the rules of a game or sport; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"
provincial - a country person
		peasant, bucolic
		rustic an unsophisticated country person
		cottar, cotter fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together
Adjective
provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
		cosmopolitan of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"
		bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
		corn-fed strong and healthy but not sophisticated
		parochial, insular relating to or supported by or located in a parish; "parochial schools"
		jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
provincial - of or associated with a province; "provincial government"

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Wiktionary

provincial (Noun)
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
provincial (Noun)
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.
provincial (Noun)
A country bumpkin.
provincial (Adjective)
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
provincial (Adjective)
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
provincial (Adjective)
Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
provincial (Adjective)
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
provincial (Adjective)
Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
provincial (Adjective)
Limited in outlook; narrow.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

provincial (a.)
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
provincial (a.)
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
provincial (a.)
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
provincial (a.)
Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
provincial (n.)
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
provincial (n.)
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.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

provincial
of or relating to the provinces.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

provincial
prō-vin′shal, adj. pertaining to Provence or Provençal.—Provincial rose, the cabbage-rose—from Provins-rose, Provins in Seine-et-Marne, being famous for its roses: (Shak.) a rosette formerly worn on the shoe