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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| 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. |
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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 | |
| provincial (prəˈvɪnʃəl) | |
| —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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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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