adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to a province.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a provincial government
- a provincial dialect
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
provincial
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
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CMU ARPABET: P R AH0 V IH1 N SH AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Constituting a province.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 3
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 4
Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 5
Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: extreme degree
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adj
Meaning 6
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a provincial synod
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adj
Meaning 7
Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 8
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 9
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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noun
Meaning 10
A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 11
A country bumpkin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
Meaning 12
characteristic of the provinces or their people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- deeply provincial and conformist
- in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial
- narrow provincial attitudes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: cosmopolitan
adjective
Meaning 13
of or associated with a province
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- provincial government
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
a country person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: peasant, bucolic
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rustic
Narrower terms: cotter, cottar, muzhik, moujik, mujik, muzjik
noun
Meaning 15
(Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: official, functionary
History
Etymology
From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.
Across languages
Translations
71 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: գավառական (gavaṙakan) — of or pertaining to a province
- Bulgarian: провинциа́лен (provinciálen) — of or pertaining to a province
- Catalan: provincial — of or pertaining to a province
- Chinese Mandarin: 省的 (shěng de) — of or pertaining to a province
- Chinese Mandarin: 地方的 (dìfang de) — of or pertaining to a province
- Danish: provinsiel — of or pertaining to a province
- Dutch: provinciaal — of or pertaining to a province
- Finnish: maakunnallinen — of or pertaining to a province
- French: provincial — of or pertaining to a province
- Friulian: provinciâl — of or pertaining to a province
- Galician: provincial — of or pertaining to a province
- Georgian: პროვინციული (ṗrovinciuli) — of or pertaining to a province
- German: provinziell — of or pertaining to a province
- German: provinzial — of or pertaining to a province
- Greek: επαρχιακός (eparchiakós) — of or pertaining to a province
- Hindi: प्रांतीय (prāntīya) — of or pertaining to a province
- Hindi: प्रादेशिक (prādeśik) — of or pertaining to a province
- Hindi: आंचलिक (āñclik) — of or pertaining to a province
- Hindi: प्रदेशीय (pradeśīya) — of or pertaining to a province
- Hindi: प्रदेशी (pradeśī) — of or pertaining to a province
- Hungarian: tartományi — of or pertaining to a province
- Italian: provinciale — of or pertaining to a province
- Kazakh: шет аймақтық (şet aimaqtyq) — of or pertaining to a province
- Latin: provincialis — of or pertaining to a province
- Ligurian: provinciâle — of or pertaining to a province
- Lombard: provincial — of or pertaining to a province
- Occitan: provincial — of or pertaining to a province
- Piedmontese: provincial — of or pertaining to a province
- Polish: prowincjonalny — of or pertaining to a province
- Polish: prowincjonalna — of or pertaining to a province
- Polish: prowincjonalne — of or pertaining to a province
- Polish: prowincjonalni — of or pertaining to a province
- Polish: prowincjonalne — of or pertaining to a province
- Portuguese: provincial — of or pertaining to a province
- Russian: провинциа́льный (provinciálʹnyj) — of or pertaining to a province
- Spanish: provincial — of or pertaining to a province
- Tagalog: panlalawigan — of or pertaining to a province
- Telugu: దేశీయము (dēśīyamu) — of or pertaining to a province
- Ukrainian: провінці́йний (provincíjnyj) — of or pertaining to a province
- Ukrainian: провінціа́льний (provinciálʹnyj) — of or pertaining to a province
- Volapük: provinik — of or pertaining to a province
- Volapük: plovinik — of or pertaining to a province
- Armenian: գավառական (gavaṙakan) — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Bulgarian: провинциа́лен (provinciálen) — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Catalan: provincià — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Finnish: maalaismainen — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Finnish: maalainen — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Finnish: provinsiaalinen — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Georgian: პროვინციული (ṗrovinciuli) — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Hungarian: provinciális — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Portuguese: interiorano — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Portuguese: provinciano — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Russian: провинциа́льный (provinciálʹnyj) — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Spanish: provinciano — exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
- Armenian: գավառական (gavaṙakan) — not cosmopolitan or polished
- Finnish: maalaismainen — not cosmopolitan or polished
- Finnish: maalainen — not cosmopolitan or polished
- Georgian: პროვინციული (ṗrovinciuli) — not cosmopolitan or polished
- Greek: επαρχιώτικος (eparchiótikos) — not cosmopolitan or polished
- Greek: χωριάτικος (choriátikos) — not cosmopolitan or polished
- Spanish: provinciano — not cosmopolitan or polished
- Spanish: paleto — not cosmopolitan or polished
- Thai: บ้านนอก (bâan-nɔ̂ɔk) — not cosmopolitan or polished
- Finnish: hiippakunnallinen — of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province
- Finnish: arkkihiippakunnallinen — of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province
- Finnish: kapeakatseinen — limited in outlook; narrow
- Finnish: nurkkakuntainen — limited in outlook; narrow
- Hungarian: provinciális — limited in outlook; narrow
- Bulgarian: архиепископ (arhiepiskop) — monastic superior who directs a province of an order
- Hungarian: provinciális — monastic superior who directs a province of an order
- Vietnamese: giám tỉnh — monastic superior who directs a province of an order
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