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PROVINCIAL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country person

Synonyms:

bucolic; peasant; provincial

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("provincial" is a kind of...):

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "provincial"):

cottar; cotter (a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands)

moujik; mujik; muzhik; muzjik (a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917))

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Example:

the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("provincial" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of the provinces or their people

Example:

narrow provincial attitudes

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

bumpkinly; hick; rustic; unsophisticated (awkwardly simple and provincial)

corn-fed (strong and healthy but not sophisticated)

insular; parochial (narrowly restricted in outlook or scope)

jerkwater; one-horse; pokey; poky (small and remote and insignificant)

stay-at-home (not given to travel)

untraveled; untravelled (not having traveled much, especially to foreign lands; not having gained experience by travel)

Antonym:

cosmopolitan (composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests)

Derivation:

province (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or associated with a province

Example:

provincial government

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

province (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Derivation:

province (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

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