noun
- Roman Catholic Church. ( an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order)
- usage: "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
- A country person.
adjective
- Of or associated with a province.
- usage: "provincial government"
- Characteristic of the provinces or their people.
- usage: "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
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