provincial

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of or relating to a province.
2. adj. Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated: "Well-educated professional women ... made me feel uncomfortably provincial” ( J.R. Salamanca).
3. adj. Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.
4. n. A native or inhabitant of the provinces.
5. n. A person who has provincial ideas or habits.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Of or pertaining to a province; existing in a province; characteristic of a province: as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
2. Forming a province or territory appendant to a principal kingdom or state: as, provincial territory.
3. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an arch bishop; not ecumenical: as, a provincial council.
4. Exhibiting the manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province, or of the country as distinguished from the metropolis or larger cities; countrified; rustic; hence, not polished; narrow; unenlightened.
5. Restricted to a province; local.
6. n. A person belonging to a province; one from any part of the country except the metropolis or one of the larger cities. The name Provincials was often applied to the inhabitants of the American colonies before the revolution, especially to their contingents engaged in military service.
7. n. In some religious orders, a monastic superior who has the general superintendence of his fraternity in a given district called a province.
8. Pertaining to Provence; Provençal.
9. A rosette of ribbons formerly worn on a shoe; a shoe-rose.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
2. adj. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
3. adj. Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
4. adj. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
5. adj. obsolete Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
6. adj. limited in outlook; narrow.
7. n. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
8. n. 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.
9. n. A country bumpkin.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province
2. adj. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
3. adj. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
4. adj. obsolete Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
5. n. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
6. n. (R. C. Ch.) 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a country person
2. adj. of or associated with a province
3. n. (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
4. adj. characteristic of the provinces or their people