Definizione monolingua

provincial

provincial (plural provincials)

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. (Roman Catholicism) 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.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:

     The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.

3. A country bumpkin.

provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

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.
   • Thomas Babington Macaulay,

     Provincial airs and graces.

3. Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
   • Ayliffe,
4. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
5. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
   • William Shakespeare,

     With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.

6. limited in outlook; narrow

Definizione dizionario provincial

provinciale

Altri significati:

A country bumpkin.

(Roman Catholic Church): 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.

A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

limited in outlook; narrow

(obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.

of or pertaining to a province

Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.

Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.

Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.