provincial
Meaning of provincial
noun
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- 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.
- A country bumpkin.
- Of or pertaining to a province.
a provincial dialect
- Constituting a province.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
- Narrow; illiberal.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
a provincial synod
- Limited in outlook; narrow.
Information about provincial
- The plural form of provincial is: provincials.
- Languages in which provincial is used:
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Hyphenation of provincial
pro-vin-cial
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- provincial is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
provincial synonyms
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Translation of provincial
- Spanish: provincial
- Italian: provinciale
- French: provincial
Words that rhyme with provincial
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