PROVINCIAL
\pɹəvˈɪnʃə͡l], \pɹəvˈɪnʃəl], \p_ɹ_ə_v_ˈɪ_n_ʃ_əl]\
Definitions of PROVINCIAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
Sort: Oldest first
-
(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"
By Princeton University
-
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
-
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
-
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
-
Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
-
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
-
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.
By Oddity Software
-
Pertaining to, or like, an outlying district or distant dependent country; countrified; crude in appearance or manner; holding to the ideas and customs of one special region; hence, narrow.
-
One who belongs to a distant dependent country or to an outlying district; countryman.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
-
An inhabitant of a province or country district: in the R. Cath. Church, the superintendent of the heads of the religious houses in a province.
-
PROVINCIALLY.
By Daniel Lyons
-
PROVINCIALLY.
-
Pertaining to a province; local; narrow.
-
An inhabitant of a province.
-
Provincialism.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
Word of the day
oberlin college
- Oberlin, Ohio, 1833 as the "Collegiate Institute," but changed name in 1850. It founded by Congregationalists. Its theological department was opened 1835.