provincial

(prə-vĭn'shəl)
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.

adj

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

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.

The provincial capital of British Columbia is Victoria.

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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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