- (n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
- (a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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