provincialise Definition
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provincial
adj
- 1. Belonging or relating to a province.
2. Relating to the parts of a country away from the capital.
- Example: a provincial accent
- Thesaurus: rural, small-town, country, local, rustic, bucolic.
- Supposedly typical of provinces in being culturally backward, unsophisticated or narrow in outlook.
- Example: provincial attitudes
- Thesaurus: home-grown, narrow-minded, homespun, limited, parochial, unsophisticated, uninformed, narrow, inward-looking; Antonym: sophisticated, urban.
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