provincial
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pro·vin·cial
(prə-vĭn′shəl)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.
pro·vin′cial·ly adv.
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. (Soccer) NZ denoting a football team representing a province, one of the historical administrative areas of New Zealand
n
5. (Sociology) a person lacking the sophistications of city life; rustic or narrow-minded individual
6. (Sociology) a person coming from or resident in a province or the provinces
7. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the head of an ecclesiastical province
8. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the head of a major territorial subdivision of a religious order
provinciality n
proˈvincially adv
pro•vin•cial
(prəˈvɪn ʃəl)adj.
1. belonging or peculiar to a particular province or provinces; local.
2. of or pertaining to the provinces.
3. rustic, narrow, or illiberal; unsophisticated; parochial.
4. (often cap.) of or pertaining to styles of furniture, architecture, etc., developed in the provinces, esp. when based on styles originating in or around the capital: Italian provincial.
n. 5. a person who lives in or comes from the provinces.
6. a person lacking in urban sophistication or broad-mindedness.
7. the head of an ecclesiastical province.
pro•vin′cial•ly, adv.
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| 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 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" |
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
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
parochial sophisticated, refined, cosmopolitan, fashionable, urbane
noun
1. yokel, hick (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), rustic, country cousin, hayseed (U.S. & Canad. informal) French provincials looking for work in Paris
provincial
adjective1. Of or relating to the countryside:
Informal: hick.
2. Having the restricted outlook often characteristic of geographic isolation:
Translations
إقْليمي
provincionální
vidékies
héraîs-; landsbyggîar-
provinciálny
pokrajinski
eyalete/taşraya ait
provincial
[prəˈvɪnʃəl]A. ADJ → provincial, de provincia (pej) → pueblerino, provinciano
B. N (usu pej) → provinciano/a m/f
provincial
[prəˈvɪnʃəl] 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
province
(ˈprovins) noun a division of a country, empire etc. Britain was once a Roman province.
proˈvincial (-ˈvinʃəl) adjective