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provincial

noun

1 provincial

Roman Catholic Church An official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order.

Polish: prowincjał, przełożony prowincjalny

2 provincial

A country person.

synonyms: bucolic, peasant.

Dutch: landarbeider, provinciaal
Polish: włościanin, chłop

adjective

1 provincial

Of or associated with a province.

Roget 189: urban, metropolitan; suburban; provincial, rural, rustic; domestic; cosmopolitan; palatial.   

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    ... show more

Roget 181: territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.   

Polish: prowincjalny, prowincjonalny

2 provincial

Characteristic of the provinces or their people.

Polish: małomiasteczkowy, prowincjonalny, zaściankowy, kartoflany, miasteczkowy


Moby thesaurus: Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, authoritarian, awkward, backwoods, backwoodsman, beg, beglerbeg, bey, bigot, bigoted, boorish, borne, bucolic, bumpkin, burgrave, campestral, cloddish ... show more.

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