Dictionary Entry
provincial
provincial is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 22 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
- 2adjective
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
- 3adjective
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
- 4adjective
Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
- 5noun
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
a country person
- 8noun
(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"
- 9adjective
characteristic of the provinces or their people
"deeply provincial and conformist"
"in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"
- 10adjective
of or associated with a province
"provincial government"
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