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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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