Provincial : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Provincial	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Provincial
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
provincial adj of or associated with a province; "provincial government" characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" Antonym(s): cosmopolitan n (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials" a country person Synonym(s): peasant, provincial, bucolic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Provincial \Provin"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. [bd]Provincial airs and graces.[b8] --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.