Word: Provincial
How to pronounce: prəˈvɪnʃəl
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Of or concerning a province of a country or empire.
Example sentences: "Provincial elections"
2. Of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
Example sentences: "The whole exhibition struck one as being very provincial"
Noun
Definitions:
1. An inhabitant of a province of a country or empire.
Example sentences: "Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother."
2. An inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
Example sentences: "A town populated by money-grubbers, philistines, and self-satisfied provincials"
3. The head or chief of a province or of a religious order in a province.
Example sentences: "As provincial of his order, he addressed temperance meetings throughout Ireland."
Synonyms:
regional
local
bumpkin
rustic
parochial
Derivations:
province
provinciality
provincialism
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Provincial in Other Languages...
Spanish: Provincial
German: Provinz
French: Provincial
Italian: Provinciale
Turkish: İl
