definition of
provincial

[1] #1 provincial a. of or associated with a province; "provincial government". wn

[2] #2 provincial a. characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes". wn

[3] #3 provincial n. (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials". wn

[4] #4 provincial n. [peasant, bucolic] a country person. wn