provincial

Meanings

Plural: provincials

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"
• a country person
• 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 constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
• A country bumpkin.

Adjective

• of or associated with a province
  • "provincial government"
• characteristic of the provinces or their people
  • "deeply provincial and conformist"
  • "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"
  • "narrow provincial attitudes"

Adj

• 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.

Synonyms

bucolic, peasant, rural

Antonyms

cosmopolitan

Anagrams of provincial