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  1. 1. a. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. Source: opted
  2. 2. 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. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. Source: opted
  6. 6. 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. Source: opted
  7. 7. adj. of or associated with a province Source: wordnet
  8. 8. adj. characteristic of the provinces or their people Source: wordnet
  9. 9. n. (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order Source: wordnet
  10. 10. n. a country person Source: wordnet
  11. 11. 1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. 2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. "Provincial airs and graces." Macaulay. 3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. Ayliffe. 4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.] With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. Shak. 1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 2. (R. C. Ch.) 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. Source: webster
  12. 12. A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, hasthe direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in agiven district, called a province of the order. Source: adambom

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