Provincial

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1. Adjective

Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

2. Adjective

Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.

3. Adjective

Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.

4. Adjective

Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.

5. Noun

A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

6. Noun

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.
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