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Word: provincial
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- limited in outlook; narrow
- Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
- obsolete Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
- Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
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Noun:
- A country bumpkin.
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- ''(Roman Catholic Church):'' 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.
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