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 [prəˈvɪnʃəl]

adj

1. of or connected with a province

2. characteristic of or connected with the provinces; local

3. (Sociology) having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to people living in the provinces; rustic or unsophisticated; limited

4. (Team Sports / Soccer) NZ denoting a football team representing a province, one of the historical administrative areas of New Zealand

n

1. (Sociology) a person lacking the sophistications of city life; rustic or narrow-minded individual

2. (Sociology) a person coming from or resident in a province or the provinces

3. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) the head of an ecclesiastical province

4. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) the head of a major territorial subdivision of a religious order

provinciality  [prəˌvɪnʃɪˈælɪtɪ] n

provincially  adv

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 The local and provincial elections take place in June.

2. rural, country, local, home-grown, rustic, homespun, hick (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), backwoods My accent gave away my provincial roots.
rural urban

3. parochial, insular, narrow-minded, unsophisticated, limited, narrow, small-town (chiefly U.S.), uninformed, inward-looking, small-minded, parish-pump, upcountry The audience was dull and very provincial.
parochial sophisticated, refined, cosmopolitan, fashionable, urbane

noun

yokel, hick (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), rustic, country cousin, hayseed (U.S. & Canad. informal) French provincials looking for work in Paris

Translations

provincial [prəˈvɪnʃəl]

A. ADJ → provincial, de provincia (pej) → pueblerino, provinciano

B. N (usu pej) → provinciano/a m/f

provincial [prəˈvɪnʃ^əl] adj

(away from the capital city) [town, newspaper, theatre] → de province

(= unsophisticated) [person, image, attitude] → provincial(le)
proving ground n → terrain m d'essai

provincial

adj → Provinz-; custom, accent → ländlich; (pej) → provinzlerisch; provincial capital → Provinzhauptstadt f; provincial narrowness → Engstirnigkeit f; the World War did not affect daily life in provincial France → der Weltkrieg hatte keinen Einfluss auf den Alltag in den ländlichen Teilen Frankreichs

n → Provinzbewohner(in) m(f); (pej) → Provinzler(in) m(f)

provincial [prəˈvɪnʃ/əl]

1. adj (gen) → di provincia (pej) → provinciale

2. n (usu pej) → provincialotto/a