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Entry 6 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Provincial

/prəv-ĭn'-shəl/ · Pro·vin·cial · IPA /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
01 a. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
  1. 1.
    Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
  2. 2.
    Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
  3. 3.
    Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
  4. 4.
    Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.[Obs.]
    “With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.” — Shak.
02 n. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  1. 1.
    A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  2. 2.
    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.(R. C. Ch.)