provincial
adjective
[ prəˈvɪnʃ(ə)l ]
• of or concerning a province of a country or empire.
Similar:
non-metropolitan,
small-town,
non-urban,
outlying,
rural,
country,
rustic,
backwoods,
backwater,
one-horse,
hick,
freshwater,
• of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
• "provincial towns"
Similar:
regional,
state,
territorial,
district,
local,
sectoral,
zonal,
cantonal,
county,
parochial,
colonial,
unsophisticated,
narrow-minded,
small-town,
suburban,
insular,
parish-pump,
inward-looking,
limited,
restricted,
localist,
conservative,
narrow,
small-minded,
petty,
blinkered,
illiberal,
inflexible,
bigoted,
prejudiced,
intolerant,
jerkwater,
corn-fed,
provincial
noun
• an inhabitant of a province of a country or empire.
• an inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
• "a town populated by money-grubbers, philistines, and self-satisfied provincials"
Similar:
(country) bumpkin,
country cousin,
rustic,
yokel,
village idiot,
peasant,
churl,
lout,
boor,
oaf,
clown,
barbarian,
yahoo,
clod,
clodhopper,
yob,
yobbo,
plonker,
schlub,
hayseed,
hick,
rube,
hillbilly,
ocker,
bucolic,
culchie,
bogman,
• the head or chief of a province or of a religious order in a province.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin provincialis ‘belonging to a province’ (see province).
