FromMiddle Englishprovincial, fromOld Frenchprovincial, fromLatinprōvinciālis(“of a province”), equivalent toprovince +-ial.
provincial (comparativemoreprovincial,superlativemostprovincial)
- Of or pertaining to aprovince.
aprovincial government
aprovincial dialect
- Constituting a province.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
1856 December,[Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, inT[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor,The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London:Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published1871,→OCLC:[…] fond of exhibitingprovincial airs and graces.
- Notcosmopolitan;backwoodsy,hick,yokelish,countrified; notpolished;rude
2011, KD McCrite,In Front of God and Everybody:That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are soprovincial, it's appalling.
- Narrow;illiberal.
- Of or pertaining to anecclesiastical province, or to thejurisdiction of anarchbishop; notecumenical.
aprovincial synod
- Limited inoutlook;narrow.
of or pertaining to a province
exhibiting the ways or manners of a province
not cosmopolitan or polished
of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province
limited in outlook; narrow
provincial (pluralprovincials)
- A person belonging to aprovince; one who is provincial.
- (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
2009,Diarmaid MacCulloch,A History of Christianity, Penguin, published2010, page700:The Franciscanprovincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
- (obsolete) Aconstitution issued by the head of anecclesiasticalprovince.
c.1503–1512,John Skelton,Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor,John Skelton: The Complete English Poems,1983,→OCLC, page65, lines130–135:Or els is thys Goddis law,
Decrees or decretals,
Or holy sinodals,
Or elsprovincyals,
Thus within the wals
Of holy church to deale […]?
- Acountry bumpkin.
monastic superior who directs a province of an order
Borrowed fromLatinprōvinciālis. First attested in 1653.[1]
provincial m orf (masculine and feminine pluralprovincials)
- provincial
Learned borrowing fromLatinprovinciālis. Bysurface analysis,province +-ial. Compareprovençal.
provincial (feminineprovinciale,masculine pluralprovinciaux,feminine pluralprovinciales)
- provincial
provincial m (pluralprovinciaux,feminineprovinciale)
- person from theprovinces/regions
FromLatinprōvinciālis. First attested in the 13th century.[1]
provincial m (feminine singularprovinciala,masculine pluralprovincials,feminine pluralprovincialas)
- provincial
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006)Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians[1], 2 edition,→ISBN, page789.
provincial
- provincial
FromLatinprōvinciālis.
- (Brazil)IPA(key): /pɾo.vĩ.siˈaw/[pɾo.vĩ.sɪˈaʊ̯],(faster pronunciation)/pɾo.vĩˈsjaw/[pɾo.vĩˈsjaʊ̯]
provincial m orf (pluralprovinciais)
- provincial
Borrowed fromLatinprovincialis. Bysurface analysis,provincie +-al.
provincial m (pluralprovinciali)
- provincial
FromLatinprōvinciālis.
- IPA(key): (Spain)/pɾobinˈθjal/[pɾo.β̞ĩn̟ˈθjal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines)/pɾobinˈsjal/[pɾo.β̞ĩnˈsjal]
- Rhymes:-al
- Syllabification:pro‧vin‧cial
provincial m orf (masculine and feminine pluralprovinciales)
- provincial
