provincial

pro·vin·cial  (pr-vnshl)

adj.

1. Of or relating to a province.

2. Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated: "Well-educated professional women ... made me feel uncomfortably provincial" (J.R. Salamanca).

3. Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.

n.

1. A native or inhabitant of the provinces.

2. A person who has provincial ideas or habits.

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pro·vincial·ly adv.

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provincial

Adjective

1. of a province

2. unsophisticated or narrow-minded

3. NZ denoting a football team representing a province

Noun

1. an unsophisticated person

2. a person from a province or the provinces

provincialism n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	provincial - (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials" Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
	2.	provincial - a country person                     bucolic, peasant cottar, cotter - a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands moujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjik - a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) rustic - an unsophisticated country person
Adj.	1.	provincial - of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
	2.	provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" cosmopolitan - composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"

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provincial

adjective 1. regional, state, local, county, district, territorial, parochial

adjective 2. rural, country, local, home-grown, rustic, homespun, hick (informal), chiefly U.S., Canad. backwoods << OPPOSITE urban

adjective 3. parochial, insular, narrow-minded, unsophisticated, limited, narrow, small-town chiefly U.S. uninformed, inward-looking, small-minded, parish-pump, upcountry << OPPOSITE cosmopolitan

noun 4. yokel, hick (informal), chiefly U.S., Canad. rustic, country cousin, hayseed U.S., Canad. (informal)

Translations

provincial [prəˈvɪnʃəl] adj → provincial;

(pej) → provinciano

provincial [prəˈvɪnʃəl] province adj → provincial(e)

provincial [prəˈvɪnʃəl] province adj [town, newspaper etc] → Provinz-;

(pej) (= parochial); provinziell

provincial [prəˈvɪnʃəl] adj → provinciale