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PROVINCIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A country person
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("provincial" is a kind of...):
rustic (an unsophisticated country person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "provincial"):
cottar; cotter (a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands)
moujik; mujik; muzhik; muzjik (a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917))
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
Example:
the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("provincial" is a kind of...):
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characteristic of the provinces or their people
Example:
narrow provincial attitudes
Classified under:
Similar:
bumpkinly; hick; rustic; unsophisticated (awkwardly simple and provincial)
corn-fed (strong and healthy but not sophisticated)
insular; parochial (narrowly restricted in outlook or scope)
jerkwater; one-horse; pokey; poky (small and remote and insignificant)
stay-at-home (not given to travel)
untraveled; untravelled (not having traveled much, especially to foreign lands; not having gained experience by travel)
Antonym:
cosmopolitan (composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests)
Derivation:
province (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or associated with a province
Example:
provincial government
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
province (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Derivation:
province (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
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