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Dictionary: pro·vin·cial   (prə-vĭn'shəl) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Of or relating to a province.
  2. Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated: "Well-educated professional women ... made me feel uncomfortably provincial" (J.R. Salamanca).
  3. Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.
n.
  1. A native or inhabitant of the provinces.
  2. A person who has provincial ideas or habits.
provincially pro·vin'cial·ly adv.

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adjective

  1. Of or relating to the countryside: arcadian, bucolic, campestral, country, pastoral, rural, rustic. Informal hick. See urban/rural.
  2. Having the restricted outlook often characteristic of geographic isolation: insular, limited, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, small-town. See limited/unlimited.

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adj

Definition: countrified, limited
Antonyms: citified, cosmopolitan, liberal, metropolitan, modern


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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Of or like country people as apart from city people. Also: Coming from one of the large divisions of land in certain countries.

pronunciation The provincial capital of British Columbia is Victoria.

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Provincial indicates anything pertaining to a province.

Provincial may also mean "not from a large city". Historically many countries did not include their capital city in their division into provinces. As a result "provincial" meant from anywhere outside the capital, leading to this occasional modern use. Although this is sometimes used negatively by large city inhabitants, or positively by the inhabitants ofother settlements, the term is not intrinsically positive or negative.


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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - provins-, provinsiel
n. - provinsboer

Nederlands (Dutch)
provinciaal, uit de provincie, gewestelijk, niet werelds, bekrompen, hoofd van een religieuze orde

Français (French)
adj. - provincial, de province, en province
n. - provincial, (Relig) supérieur

Deutsch (German)
adj. - Provinz..., provinziell
n. - Provinzbewohner(in)

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - επαρχιακός, επαρχιώτικος

Italiano (Italian)
provinciale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - provinciano

Русский (Russian)
провинциальный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - provincial, de provincia
n. - provincial

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - regional, provinsiell, lantlig

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
省的, 偏狭的, 地方的, 乡下人, 地方人民

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 省的, 偏狹的, 地方的
n. - 鄉下人, 地方人民

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 지방의, 지방적인, 대교구의
n. - 지방인, 시골뜨기

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 地方の, 州の, 田舎じみた, 視野の狭い
n. - 地方出身者, 田舎者

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) قروي, ريفي, أقليمي, ضيق الأفق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮קרתני, צר-אופק, כפרי, מוגבל‬
n. - ‮תושב של מחוז, כפרי‬


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