provincial

1. Of or associated with a province (synset 302796680)
   "provincial government"
2. Characteristic of the provinces or their people (synset 300639387)
   "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
   similar to:

   • bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated - awkwardly simple and provincial
   • corn-fed - strong and healthy but not sophisticated
   • insular, parochial - narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
   • jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky - small and remote and insignificant
   • stay-at-home - not given to travel
   • untraveled, untravelled - not having traveled much, especially to foreign lands; not having gained experience by travel

1. (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order (synset 110478400)
   "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
   referred to in: church of rome, roman catholic, roman catholic church, roman church, western church - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy
   is a type of: functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
2. A country person (synset 110430413)
   is a type of: rustic - an unsophisticated country person
   subtypes:

   • cottar, cotter - a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands
   • moujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjik - a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917)
   same as: bucolic, peasant

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