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provincial

Adjective provincial has 2 senses

provincial - of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
Antonyms: cosmopolitan, sophisticated, urbane, traveled, travelled

Noun provincial has 2 senses

provincial - (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"
--₁ is a kind of official, functionary
peasant, provincial, bucolic - a country person
--₂ is a kind of rustic
--₂ has particulars:
cotter, cottar; muzhik, moujik, mujik, muzjik

provides providing proviions province province s provinces provincia provincial provincial provincial capital provincialism provincially provincials proving proving ground provinicals provinicial

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