Provincial

Meaning of Provincial

noun
  1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  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.
  3. A country bumpkin.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a province.
    a provincial dialect
  2. Constituting a province.
  3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
  5. Narrow; illiberal.
  6. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
    a provincial synod
  7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

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Hyphenation of Provincial

Provin-cial

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • Provincial is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Provincial synonyms

Meaning peasant:

peasant, bucolic

Meaning :

rural

Words that rhyme with Provincial

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