provincial
adjective
- 1
characteristic of the provinces or their people
deeply provincial and conformist
in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial
- 2
of or associated with a province
provincial government
noun
- 1
a country person
- 2
(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
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