EGAVE

provincial

About 15.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a province.
    a provincial government
  2. adjective Constituting a province.
  3. adjective Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  4. adjective Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
  5. adjective Backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude.
  6. adjective Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
    a provincial synod
  7. noun A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  8. 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.

Similar words

parochial peasant stay-at-home bucolic rustic hick pokey bumpkinly unsophisticated jerkwater

Often followed by

government and governments congress council capital towns governors town governor

Word family

provincially provincials

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