Hypertext Webster Gateway: "provincial"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, a. [L. provincialis: cf. F.
provincial. See {Province}, and cf. {Provencal}.]
1. Of or pertaining to 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; not
cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence,
narrow; illiberal. ``Provincial airs and graces.''
--Macaulay.
3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the
jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a
provincial synod. --Ayliffe.
4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.]
With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, n.
1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
provincial
adj 1: of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
2: characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply
provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company
I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial
attitudes" [ant: {cosmopolitan}]
n : a country person [syn: {peasant}, {bucolic}]
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