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provincial

  • adjective
  • /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/

Of or pertaining to a province.

Example

“a provincial government”

Other meanings

  1. constituting a province.

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

Related words

  • comprovincial
  • ecoprovincial
  • extraprovincial
  • interprovincial
  • intraprovincial
  • multiprovincial
  • nonprovincial
  • provincialate
  • provincialist
  • provinciality
  • provincial council
  • provincialization

Word history

From Latin "prōvinciālis" (of a province).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “provincial” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.