provincial

See also: Provincial

English

Etymology

From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈvɪnt͡ʃəl/

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

1. Of or pertaining to a province.

   a provincial government

   a provincial dialect

2. Constituting a province.
3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
   • 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson

     […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
   • 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody

     That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.

5. Narrow; illiberal.
6. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.

   a provincial synod

7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

Synonyms

• rural

Derived terms

• provincially

Translations

of or pertaining to a province

• Armenian: գավառական (hy) (gavaṙakan)
• Bulgarian: провинциа́лен (bg) (provinciálen)
• Catalan: provincial (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 省的 (zh) (shěng de), 地方的 (zh) (dìfang de)

• Dutch: provinciaal (nl)
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: maakunnallinen (fi)
• French: provincial (fr)
• Friulian: provinciâl
• Galician: provincial
• Georgian: პროვინციული (ṗrovinciuli)
• German: provinziell, provinzial

• Hungarian: tartományi
• Italian: provinciale (it)
• Latin: provincialis
• Ligurian: please add this translation if you can
• Lombard: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: provincial
• Piedmontese: provincial
• Portuguese: provincial
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: провинциа́льный (ru) (provinciálʹnyj)
• Spanish: provincial
• Telugu: దేశీయము (te) (dēśīyamu)
• Ukrainian: провінці́йний (provincíjnyj), провінціа́льний (provinciálʹnyj)
• Volapük: provinik (vo), (older word, obsolete) plovinik

exhibiting the ways or manners of a province

• Armenian: գավառական (hy) (gavaṙakan)
• Bulgarian: провинциа́лен (bg) (provinciálen)
• Finnish: maalaismainen (fi), maalainen (fi), provinsiaalinen
• Georgian: პროვინციული (ṗrovinciuli)

• Hungarian: provinciális
• Portuguese: interiorano, provinciano (pt)
• Russian: провинциа́льный (ru) (provinciálʹnyj)

not cosmopolitan or polished

• Armenian: գավառական (hy) (gavaṙakan)
• Finnish: maalaismainen (fi), maalainen (fi)
• Georgian: პროვინციული (ṗrovinciuli)
• Greek: επαρχιώτικος (el) (eparchiótikos), χωριάτικος (el) (choriátikos)

• Spanish: provinciano (es), paleto
• Thai: บ้านนอก (th) (bâan-nɔ̂ɔk)

of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province

• Finnish: hiippakunnallinen (of diocese); arkkihiippakunnallinen (of archdiocese)

limited in outlook; narrow

• Finnish: kapeakatseinen (fi), nurkkakuntainen

• Hungarian: provinciális

Noun

provincial (plural provincials)

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
3. (Roman Catholicism) 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.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:

     The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.

4. (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, OCLC 8728872, lines 130–135, page 65:

     Or els is thys Goddis law,
     Decrees or decretals,
     Or holy sinodals,
     Or els provincyals,
     Thus within the wals
     Of holy church to deale  […]?

5. A country bumpkin.

Translations

monastic superior who directs a province of an order

• Bulgarian: архиепископ m (arhiepiskop)
• Hungarian: provinciális

• Vietnamese: giám tỉnh

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin prōvinciālis. [First attested in 1653.]

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /pɾo.vin.siˈal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pɾu.bin.siˈal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

provincial (masculine and feminine plural provincials)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialisme

Related terms

• província

Further reading

• “provincial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “provincial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “provincial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From Latin provincialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal/

• Audio

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Adjective

provincial (feminine provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialement
• provincialisme

Noun

provincial m (plural provinciaux)

1. people from the provinces/regions

Further reading

• “provincial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin prōvinciālis. [First attested in the 13th century.]

Adjective

provincial m (feminine singular provinciala, masculine plural provincials, feminine plural provincialas)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialisme

Related terms

• província

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 789.

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Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pruviŋˈt͡ʃal/

Adjective

provincial

1. provincial

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin prōvinciālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾo.vĩ.siˈaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾu.vĩˈsjaɫ/

Adjective

provincial m or f (plural provinciais)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialismo

Related terms

• província
• provinciano

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin provincialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro.vin.t͡ʃiˈal/

Noun

provincial m (plural provinciali)

1. provincial

Declension

Declension of provincial

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) provincial	provincialul	(niște) provinciali	provincialii
genitive/dative	(unui) provincial	provincialului	(unor) provinciali	provincialilor
vocative	provincialule		provincialilor

Related terms

• provincialism
• provincie

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin prōvinciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾobinˈθjal/, [pɾo.β̞ĩn̟ˈθjal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /pɾobinˈsjal/, [pɾo.β̞ĩnˈsjal]

Adjective

provincial (plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• audiencia provincial
• provincialismo
• provincialista
• provincializar

 

Related terms

• provincia

Further reading

• “provincial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014