provincial
Use Provincial in a sentence
ʃəl adjective
1.
belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
2.
of or pertaining to the provinces: provincial customs; provincial dress.
3.
having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; parochial: a provincial point of view.
4.
( often initial capital letter ) Fine Arts. noting or pertaining to the styles of architecture, furniture, etc., found in the provinces, especially when imitating styles currently or formerly in fashion in or around the capital: Italian Provincial.
5.
History/Historical. of or pertaining to any of the American provinces of Great Britain.
noun
6.
a person who lives in or comes from the provinces.
7.
a person who lacks urban sophistication or broad-mindedness.
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Provincial
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Related forms
pro·vin·cial·ly, adverb
in·ter·pro·vin·cial, adjective
non·pro·vin·cial, adjective
non·pro·vin·cial·ly, adverb
qua·si-pro·vin·cial, adjective
qua·si-pro·vin·cial·ly, adverb
sem·i·pro·vin·cial, adjective
sem·i·pro·vin·cial·ly, adverb
sub·pro·vin·cial, adjective, noun
un·pro·vin·cial, adjective
un·pro·vin·cial·ly, adverb
Synonyms
3. rural, small-town.
3. rural, small-town.
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provincial (prəˈvɪnʃəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | of or connected with a province |
| 2. | characteristic of or connected with the provinces; local |
| 3. | having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to people living in the provinces; rustic or unsophisticated; limited |
| 4. | (NZ) denoting a football team representing a province, one of the historical administrative areas of New Zealand |
| —n | |
| 5. | a person lacking the sophistications of city life; rustic or narrow-minded individual |
| 6. | a person coming from or resident in a province or the provinces |
| 7. | the head of an ecclesiastical province |
| 8. | the head of a major territorial subdivision of a religious order |
| provinciality | |
| —n | |
| pro'vincially | |
| —adv | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
provincial
late 14c., "pertaining to a province," from Fr. provincial (13c.), from L. provincialis, from provincia (see province). "Of the small towns and countryside" (as opposed to the capital and urban center) from 1630s, a French idiom. Suggestive of rude or narrow society from
mid-18c. The noun meaning "country person" is from 1711. Provincialism in the political sense is attested from 1820.
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Example sentences
It was also something about the particular nature of the characters-they are fairly provincial and limited.
Culturally, the valley has always stood a bit apart from the world, provincial and proud of it.
There are plenty of beaches in provincial and national parks, as well as near cities.
Further, big oil exercises far too much influence over our provincial and federal governments.
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