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Meaning Of Provincial
a.
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province;
as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
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.
a.
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to
the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial
synod.
a.
Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
n.
A person belonging to a province; one who is
provincial.
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.