FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

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

a Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.

a Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.

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

a (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.

a limited in outlook; narrow

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

n (Roman Catholicism) 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.

n A country bumpkin.