provincial has definitions from the field of work
1
[ adjective ] of or associated with a province

Examples

"provincial government"

Used in print

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

We should encourage the governments to develop their own technical assistance to communities , state and provincial governments , rural communities , and other smaller groups , making certain that no important segment of the economy is neglected .

(Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)

Periodic bulletins of the accomplishment in each province made the registration process into a kind of competition among provincial officials .

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

Orders not written_down had_to be transmitted to the local provincial government .

Related terms

state territory

2
[ adjective ] characteristic of the provinces or their people

Examples

"deeply provincial and conformist" "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial" "narrow provincial attitudes"

Used in print

(David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)

However , a growing intellectual sophistication and the new certitudes imparted by courses in psychology and anthropology make the students increasingly critical of their somewhat provincial and overprotective parents .

3
[ noun ] (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order

Examples

"the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"

Related terms

official Roman_Catholic

4
[ noun ] a country person

Synonyms

peasant bucolic

Related terms

rustic muzhik cotter

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