Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who is a native or inhabitant of a province.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An inhabitant of a province; a provincial.
  • noun One who uses provincialisms.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who lives in a province; a provincial.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who lives in a province; a provincial.

Etymologies

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provincial +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Winkleman is showing significant art, not formalist poetry or provincialist landscapes.

    Hickey remarks vanish (revised) EAGEAGEAG 2009

  • That was meant as a sarcastic rejoinder to dmfoiemjsof's provincialist tribalist racist bigotry.

    "What we do is try to inject a brief moment of wonder that helps wake them up from that rushed stupor. That’s the true holiday spirit, isn’t it?" Ann Althouse 2007

  • To quote: The provincialist politicians... need a Quebec ghetto as their lair.

    reek 2006

  • Harper probably thinks that because he is a provincialist - Province, Province Uber Alles - he will have an easy time.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • Take, for instance, 'The North Will Rise Again' from the new 'Grotesque' album, a song widely misconstrued as just another provincialist rant:

    New Musical Express 1981

  • Does anyone care about some sort of a national energy effort, rather than a series of provincialist approaches?

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

  • (I would disagree, but my premises are different, ie., neither nationalist nor provincialist).

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • There never had been a nation as we all are very provincialist as recently someone asked an American about his visit to India and he replied I liket it but never met an Indian.

    Latest News Online - Express Indian 2009

  • In 2001 Harper and some of his closest advisors put their provincialist biases on full display when they advocated the raising of a "firewall" around Alberta to isolate Oil Patch and its agencies from the constitutional authority of the Canada?

    Indymedia Euskal Herria 2009

  • In 2001 Harper and some of his closest advisors put their provincialist biases on full display when they advocated the raising of a "firewall" around Alberta to isolate Oil Patch and its agencies from the constitutional authority of the Canada's national government.

    GlobalResearch.ca 2009

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