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provincial

The correct spelling is provincial.

How to pronounce provincial

/pɹɒvinʃəl̩/
noun

IPA: /pɹɒvinʃəl̩/

Say it like: Pro-vin-sha-l

The correct spelling is provincial. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. For example: "a provincial dialect"

Usage Examples

a provincial dialect

a provincial synod

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  2. 2.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.
  3. 3.A country bumpkin.

adjective

  1. 1.Of or pertaining to a province.
  2. 2.Constituting a province.
  3. 3.Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  4. 4.Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
  5. 5.Narrow; illiberal.

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