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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 has two basic meanings.

It can refer to someone who has a limited, restricted, or non-sophisticated mentality or habits, considered stereotypical of an inhabitant of "the provinces" (areas distant from the national capital). See: parochialism

The other basic meaning is anything related to a province, a formal geographical division, a country or a church, or any part of a country outside the national capital as noted above. In countries with powerful provincial loyalties the word lacks the negative connotation noted above. More specifically, provincial can refer to:



 
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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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