provincial
Of or pertaining to a province.
Adjective 4 meanings
Of or pertaining to a province.
“a provincial government”
Constituting a province.
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
Noun 3 meanings
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.
Etymology
From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.
PROVINCIAL at a glance
PROVINCIAL has 10 letters and scores 17 points in Scrabble (P 3 + R 1 + O 1 + V 4 + I 1 + N 1 + C 3 + I 1 + A 1 + L 1) and 22 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,188 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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