ALL meanings of provincial
pro·vin·cial
P p - adjective provincial local, of a province 1
- adjective provincial attitude: not worldly 1
- noun provincial person from the provinces 1
- adjective provincial belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper. 1
- adjective provincial of or relating to the provinces: provincial customs; provincial dress. 1
- adjective provincial having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; parochial: a provincial point of view. 1
- adjective provincial (often initial capital letter) Fine Arts. noting or pertaining to the styles of architecture, furniture, etc., found in the provinces, especially when imitating styles currently or formerly in fashion in or around the capital: Italian Provincial. 1
- adjective provincial History/Historical. of or relating to any of the American provinces of Great Britain. 1
- noun provincial a person who lives in or comes from the provinces. 1
- noun provincial a person who lacks urban sophistication or broad-mindedness. 1
- noun provincial Ecclesiastical. the head of an ecclesiastical province. a member of a religious order presiding over the order in a given district or province. 1
- adjective provincial Provincial means connected with the parts of a country away from the capital city. 0
- adjective provincial If you describe someone or something as provincial, you disapprove of them because you think that they are old-fashioned and boring. 0
- countable noun provincial A provincial is someone who comes from a part of a country away from the capital city. 0
- adjective provincial of or connected with a province 0
- adjective provincial characteristic of or connected with the provinces; local 0
- adjective provincial having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to people living in the provinces; rustic or unsophisticated; limited 0
- adjective provincial denoting a football team representing a province, one of the historical administrative areas of New Zealand 0
- noun provincial a person lacking the sophistications of city life; rustic or narrow-minded individual 0
- noun provincial a person coming from or resident in a province or the provinces 0
- noun provincial the head of an ecclesiastical province 0
- noun provincial the head of a major territorial subdivision of a religious order 0
- adjective provincial of or belonging to a province 0
- adjective provincial having the ways, speech, attitudes, etc. of a certain province 0
- adjective provincial of or like that of rural provinces; countrified; rustic 0
- adjective provincial designating or of a style, esp. of 18th-cent. European furniture, that was characteristic of the provinces and was a simpler and plainer copy of the style characteristic of the capital and cultural centers 0
- adjective provincial narrow; limited; unsophisticated 0
- noun provincial a native of a province 0
- noun provincial a provincial person; esp., a narrow-minded or unsophisticated person 0