A Quick and Simple Dictionary

provincial

1. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
2. Adjective.  Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
3. Adjective.  Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
4. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a '''provincial''' synod.
5. Adjective.  (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
6. Adjective.  limited in outlook; narrow.
7. Noun.  A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
8. Noun.  (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.
9. Noun.  A country bumpkin.