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provincial

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provincial in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. a country person
    peasant  provincial  bucolic 
  2. (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"
    provincial 
adjective
  1. characteristic of the provinces or their people
    "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
    provincial 
  2. of or associated with a province
    "provincial government"
    provincial 
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