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provincially 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.
    3. derog
      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.
Derivative: provinciality
noun
    Derivative: provincialize
    verb
      Derivative: provincially
      adverb
        Etymology: 14c: French, from Latin provincialis, from provincia province.



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