PROVINCIAL

provincial

1. [Adjective]: of or associated with a province; "provincial government"

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

3. [Noun]: (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"

4. [Noun]: a country person

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