provincial🔊

Of or pertaining to a province.

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.

Limited in outlook; narrow.

A person belonging to a province.

(Roman Catholicism) 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.

(obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.

A country bumpkin.