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Meaning of 'provincial' (Webster Dictionary)

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

Meaning of 'provincial' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . provincial [ n]
Meaning (1):
- (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
Example in sentence:
  • the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials
2 . provincial [ a]
Meaning (2):
- characteristic of the provinces or their people
Example in sentence:
  • deeply provincial and conformist;
  • in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial;
  • narrow provincial attitudes
Meaning (3):
- of or associated with a province
Example in sentence:
  • provincial government

Nearby Words:

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