Adjective: provincial pru'vin-shul
- Of or associated with a province
"provincial government"
- Characteristic of the provinces or their people
"narrow provincial attitudes"; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"
- (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
"The provincial was overwhelmed by the bustling city";
- peasant, bucolic
Derived forms: provincials
See also: bumpkinly [informal], corn-fed, cornpone [US, informal], desi [Asia], hick [N. Amer, informal], insular, jerkwater [US], one-horse, parochial, pokey, rustic, stay-at-home, unsophisticated, untraveled [US], untravelled [Brit, Cdn]
Type of: functionary, official, rustic
Antonym: cosmopolitan
Encyclopedia: Provincial