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English to English adjective
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of or associated with a province |
• provincial government
source: wordnet30
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characteristic of the provinces or their people |
• deeply provincial and conformist
• in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial
• narrow provincial attitudes
source: wordnet30
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Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. | source: webster1913 noun
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(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
source: wordnet30 source: wordnet30
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A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. | source: webster1913
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