English

Adjective

provincial ‎(comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

1. Of or pertaining to a province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
   • Thomas Babington Macaulay,

     Provincial airs and graces.

3. Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
4. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
   • Ayliffe,
5. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
   • William Shakespeare,

     With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.

6. limited in outlook; narrow

Translations

Noun

provincial ‎(plural provincials)

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:

     The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.

3. A country bumpkin.

Catalan

Adjective

provincial m, f ‎(masculine and feminine plural provincials)

1. provincial

French

Etymology

From Latin provincialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal/

Adjective

provincial m ‎(feminine singular provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialement
• provincialisme

Noun

provincial m ‎(plural provinciaux)

1. people from the provinces/regions

Portuguese

Adjective

provincial ‎(plural provinciais, comparable)

1. provincial

Spanish

Adjective

provincial m, f ‎(plural provinciales)

1. provincial