provincial

Meaning

Adj

1. Of or pertaining to a province.
2. Constituting a province.
3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
5. Narrow; illiberal.
6. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

Noun

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. 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.
3. (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
4. A country bumpkin.

Synonyms

regional

rural

local

rustic

unsophisticated

peasant

out of town

territorial

bucolic

up-country

naive

oblast

native

omit

parochial

peripheral

province

remote

save

sectional

state

suburban

understand

unworldly

upcountry

agrestic

country-bred

country-style

ruralist

cracker-barrel

of/in the outlying districts

belonging to a province

in the outlying districts

smalltown

examine oneself

backwoodsman

unliberal

countrified

country

countryman

countryside

countrywoman

economical

economize

endemic

hick

inland

metropolitan

Translations

provinciale

provincial

provinciaal

provincial

gewestelijk

provincial

provinciano

kleinstädtisch

provinziell

provincial

provinciano

επαρχιακός

Provinzler

köylü

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/

Etymology

From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.