Usually means: Relating to regions outside cities.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word provincial:

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  1. provincial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. provincial: Merriam-Webster
  3. provincial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. provincial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. provincial: Collins English Dictionary
  6. provincial: Vocabulary.com
  7. Provincial, provincial: Wordnik
  8. provincial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Provincial, provincial: Wiktionary
  10. provincial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. provincial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. provincial: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Provincial, provincial: Dictionary.com
  14. provincial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Provincial (album), Provincial (religion), Provincial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Provincial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. provincial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. provincial: Rhymezone
  19. provincial, provincial(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. provincial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. provincial: FreeDictionary.org
  22. provincial: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. provincial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Provincial: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. provincial: Legal dictionary

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  1. provincial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Provincial: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. provincial: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. provincial: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See provincially as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a province.
adjective:  Constituting a province.
adjective:  Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
adjective:  Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
adjective:  Narrow; illiberal.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
adjective:  Limited in outlook; narrow.
noun:  A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
noun:  A country bumpkin.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.

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