Definitions for provincial

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provincial pro·vin·cial

Spelling: [pruh-vin-shuh l]

IPA: /prəˈvɪn ʃəl/

Provincial is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 532 anagrams from letters in provincial (aciilnoprv).

Definitions for provincial

noun

1. a person who lives in or comes from the provinces.
2. a person who lacks urban sophistication or broad-mindedness.
3. Ecclesiastical. the head of an ecclesiastical province. a member of a religious order presiding over the order in a given district or province.

adjective

1. belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local:
2. of or relating to the provinces:
3. having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; parochial:
4. (often initial capital letter) Fine Arts. noting or pertaining to the styles of architecture, furniture, etc., found in the provinces, especially when imitating styles currently or formerly in fashion in or around the capital:
5. History/Historical. of or relating to any of the American provinces of Great Britain.

Origin of provincial

1300-50; Middle English (noun and adj.) Latin prōvinciālis. See province, -al¹

Examples for provincial

Twenty years ago it would have been laughable to believe that English provincial cuisine could match French provincial cuisine.

The provincial captains are drumming up for soldiers, in every newspaper.

In July, parliament lowered its quota for female lawmakers on provincial councils from 25 percent to 20 percent.

And on Tuesday, a candidate for a provincial office and nine of his supporters were kidnapped and killed by the Taliban.

Before the furor of 1876, how many scores of provincial English had?

The provincial Congress, which had adjourned, immediately re-assembled.

She tells us how little the federal and provincial governments have done to regulate the tar sands.

A man such as this was never intended to succeed in a provincial town.

They sat at all the meetings of National and provincial and Regional committees.

In a province with tens of thousands of Iraq Security Forces, Tikrit, the provincial capital, was seized without a fight.