provincial

See also: Provincial

English

Etymology

From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”), equivalent to province +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈvɪnt͡ʃəl/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

1. Of or pertaining to a province.

   a provincial government

   a provincial dialect

2. Constituting a province.
3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
   • 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

     […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
   • 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody:

     That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.

5. Narrow; illiberal.
6. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.

   a provincial synod

7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

Synonyms

• rural

Derived terms

• comprovincial
• ecoprovincial
• extraprovincial
• interprovincial
• intraprovincial
• multiprovincial
• nonprovincial
• provincialate
• provincial capital
• provincialist
• provinciality
• provincialization
• provincialize
• provincially
• provincial park
• subprovincial
• transprovincial
• unprovincial

 

Translations

of or pertaining to a province

• Armenian: գավառական (hy) (gavaṙakan)
• Bulgarian: провинциа́лен (bg) (provinciálen)
• Catalan: provincial (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 省的 (zh) (shěng de), 地方的 (zh) (dìfang de)

• Danish: provinsiel
• Dutch: provinciaal (nl)
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: maakunnallinen (fi)
• French: provincial (fr)
• Friulian: provinciâl
• Galician: provincial (gl)
• Georgian: პროვინციული (ṗrovinciuli)
• German: provinziell, provinzial
• Greek: επαρχιακός (el) (eparchiakós)
• Hindi: प्रांतीय (hi) (prāntīya), प्रादेशिक (hi) (prādeśik), आंचलिक (hi) (āñclik)
• Hungarian: tartományi (hu)
• Italian: provinciale (it)
• Kazakh: шет аймақтық (şet aimaqtyq)
• Latin: provincialis
• Ligurian: provinciâle
• Lombard: provincial (lmo)
• Occitan: provincial
• Piedmontese: provincial
• Portuguese: provincial
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: провинциа́льный (ru) (provinciálʹnyj)
• Spanish: provincial (es)
• Telugu: దేశీయము (te) (dēśīyamu)
• Ukrainian: провінці́йний (provincíjnyj), провінціа́льний (provinciálʹnyj)
• Volapük: provinik (vo), (older word, obsolete) plovinik

exhibiting the ways or manners of a province

• Armenian: գավառական (hy) (gavaṙakan)
• Bulgarian: провинциа́лен (bg) (provinciálen)
• Finnish: maalaismainen (fi), maalainen (fi), provinsiaalinen
• Georgian: პროვინციული (ṗrovinciuli)
• Hungarian: provinciális (hu)
• Portuguese: interiorano, provinciano (pt)
• Russian: провинциа́льный (ru) (provinciálʹnyj)

not cosmopolitan or polished

• Armenian: գավառական (hy) (gavaṙakan)
• Finnish: maalaismainen (fi), maalainen (fi)
• Georgian: პროვინციული (ṗrovinciuli)
• Greek: επαρχιώτικος (el) (eparchiótikos), χωριάτικος (el) (choriátikos)
• Spanish: provinciano (es), paleto (es)
• Thai: บ้านนอก (th) (bâan-nɔ̂ɔk)

of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province

• Finnish: hiippakunnallinen (of diocese); arkkihiippakunnallinen (of archdiocese)

limited in outlook; narrow

• Finnish: kapeakatseinen (fi), nurkkakuntainen
• Hungarian: provinciális (hu)

Noun

provincial (plural provincials)

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
3. (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.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 700:

     The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.

4. (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 130–135:

     Or els is thys Goddis law,
     Decrees or decretals,
     Or holy sinodals,
     Or els provincyals,
     Thus within the wals
     Of holy church to deale  […]?

5. A country bumpkin.

Translations

monastic superior who directs a province of an order

• Bulgarian: архиепископ m (arhiepiskop)
• Hungarian: provinciális (hu)
• Vietnamese: giám tỉnh

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvinciālis. First attested in 1653.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pɾu.βin.siˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [pɾo.vin.siˈal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

provincial m or f (masculine and feminine plural provincials)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialisme

Related terms

• província

Further reading

• “provincial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “provincial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “provincial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin provinciālis. By surface analysis, province +‎ -ial. Compare provençal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal/

• Audio:

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Adjective

provincial (feminine provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialement
• provincialisme

Noun

provincial m (plural provinciaux, feminine provinciale)

1. person from the provinces/regions

Further reading

• “provincial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin prōvinciālis. First attested in the 13th century.

Adjective

provincial m (feminine singular provinciala, masculine plural provincials, feminine plural provincialas)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialisme

Related terms

• província

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 789.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pruviŋˈt͡ʃal/

Adjective

provincial

1. provincial

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin prōvinciālis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pɾo.vĩ.siˈaw/ [pɾo.vĩ.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /pɾo.vĩˈsjaw/ [pɾo.vĩˈsjaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾu.vĩˈsjal/ [pɾu.vĩˈsjaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾu.vĩˈsjal/ [pɾu.vĩˈsjaɫ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾu.bĩˈsjal/ [pɾu.βĩˈsjaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɾu.vĩˈsja.li/

Adjective

provincial m or f (plural provinciais)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialismo

Related terms

• província
• provinciano

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin provincialis. By surface analysis, provincie +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro.vin.t͡ʃiˈal/

Noun

provincial m (plural provinciali)

1. provincial

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	provincial	provincialul		provinciali	provincialii
genitive-dative	provincial	provincialului		provinciali	provincialilor
vocative	provincialule			provincialilor

Related terms

• provincialism

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin prōvinciālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾobinˈθjal/ [pɾo.β̞ĩn̟ˈθjal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pɾobinˈsjal/ [pɾo.β̞ĩnˈsjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cial

Adjective

provincial m or f (masculine and feminine plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• audiencia provincial
• diputación provincial
• provincialismo
• provincialista
• provincializar

 

Related terms

• provincia

 

Further reading

• “provincial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28