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The definition of provincial

8 Definitions of: provincial

    1. adjective, of or connected with a province
    2. adjective, characteristic of or connected with the provinces; local
    3. adjective, having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to people living in the provinces; rustic or unsophisticated; limited
    4. adjective, denoting a football team representing a province, one of the historical administrative areas of New Zealand
    5. noun, a person lacking the sophistications of city life; rustic or narrow-minded individual
    6. noun, a person coming from or resident in a province or the provinces
    7. noun, the head of an ecclesiastical province
    8. noun, the head of a major territorial subdivision of a religious order
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Synonyms: local, insular, yokel, hick (informal chiefly U.S. Canad.), rustic, hayseed (U.S. Canad. informal), regional, state, county, district And more...
Antonyms: urban, cosmopolitan
 

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