provincial

pro·vin·cial

P0622800 (prə-vĭn′shəl)adj.1. Of or relating to a province.2. Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated: "Well-educated professional women ... made me feel uncomfortably provincial" (J.R. Salamanca).3. Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.n.1. A native or inhabitant of the provinces.2. A person who has provincial ideas or habits.

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pro·vin′cial·ly adv.

provincial

(prəˈvɪnʃəl) adj1. of or connected with a province2. characteristic of or connected with the provinces; local3. (Sociology) having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to people living in the provinces; rustic or unsophisticated; limited4. (Soccer) NZ denoting a football team representing a province, one of the historical administrative areas of New Zealandn5. (Sociology) a person lacking the sophistications of city life; rustic or narrow-minded individual6. (Sociology) a person coming from or resident in a province or the provinces7. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the head of an ecclesiastical province8. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the head of a major territorial subdivision of a religious order provinciality n proˈvincially adv

pro•vin•cial

(prəˈvɪn ʃəl)

adj. 1. belonging or peculiar to a particular province or provinces; local. 2. of or pertaining to the provinces. 3. rustic, narrow, or illiberal; unsophisticated; parochial. 4. (often cap.) of or pertaining to styles of furniture, architecture, etc., developed in the provinces, esp. when based on styles originating in or around the capital: Italian provincial. n. 5. a person who lives in or comes from the provinces. 6. a person lacking in urban sophistication or broad-mindedness. 7. the head of an ecclesiastical province. [1300–50; Middle English (n. and adj.) < Latin prōvinciālis. See province, -al¹] pro•vin′cial•ly, adv.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	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"Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchyfunctionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
	2.	provincial - a country person bucolic, peasantcottar, cotter - a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlandsmoujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjik - a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917)rustic - an unsophisticated country person
Adj.	1.	provincial - of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
	2.	provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"cosmopolitan - composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"

provincial

adjective1. regional, state, local, county, district, territorial, parochial The local and provincial elections take place in June.2. rural, country, local, home-grown, rustic, homespun, hick (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), backwoods My accent gave away my provincial roots.
rural urban3. parochial, insular, narrow-minded, unsophisticated, limited, narrow, small-town (chiefly U.S.), uninformed, inward-looking, small-minded, parish-pump, upcountry The audience was dull and very provincial.
parochial sophisticated, refined, cosmopolitan, fashionable, urbanenoun1. yokel, hick (informal, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), rustic, country cousin, hayseed (U.S. & Canad. informal) French provincials looking for work in Paris

provincial

adjective1. Of or relating to the countryside:arcadian, bucolic, campestral, country, pastoral, rural, rustic.Informal: hick.2. Having the restricted outlook often characteristic of geographic isolation:insular, limited, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, small-town.

Translations

省的

province

(ˈprovins) noun a division of a country, empire etc. Britain was once a Roman province. 省 省proˈvincial (-ˈvinʃəl) adjective 省的 省的