provincial

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to a province.
• Constituting a province.
• Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
• Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
• Narrow; illiberal.
• Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
• Limited in outlook; narrow.

Noun

• A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
• 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.
• A country bumpkin.

Related

Similar words

• rural

Origin

• From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis ("province").