Added 9 October 2026
provincial
/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/ adjective
In Latin: provincialis Wiktionary
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-
Of or pertaining to a province.
a provincial government
- Constituting a province.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
noun
- 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.
- A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
Origin
From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.
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