A provincial person comes from the backwaters. Someone from a small province outside of Provence, France, might seem a little more provincial and less worldly than someone from, say, Paris.
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province;
Noun
a country person
Noun
(Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
Adjective
characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
Adjective
of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
a.
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province;
as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
a.
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province;
characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan;
countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
a.
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to
the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial
synod.
a.
Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
n.
A person belonging to a province; one who is
provincial.
n.
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.
Provincial
With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
Provincial
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province;
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
Usage Examples
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
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Other Usage ExamplesProvincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.
I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
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