Provincial(a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
Provincial(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.
Provincial(a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
Provincial(a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
Provincial(n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
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.
Provincialism(n.) A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
Provinciality(n.) The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.
Provincialize(v. t.) To render provincial.
Provincialized(imp. & p. p.) of Provincialize
Provincializing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Provincialize
Provincially(adv.) In a provincial manner.
Provinciate(v. t.) To convert into a province or provinces.
Words within provincialities