Word Meanings - PROVINCIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. 2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified;

Additional info about word: PROVINCIAL

1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. 2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. "Provincial airs and graces." Macaulay. 3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. Ayliffe. 4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. Shak.

Related words: (words related to PROVINCIAL)

• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• PROVINCIALLY
  In a provincial manner.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• CONSTITUTION
  1. The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation. 2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes
• CONSTITUTIVE
  1. Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue. Barrow. 2. Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DIALECTAL
  Relating to a dialect; dialectical; as, a dialectical variant.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• COUNTRIFIED
  Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude. As being one who took no pride, And was a deal too countrified. Lloyd.
• COSMOPOLITANISM
  The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.
• EXHIBITOR
  One who exhibits.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• PROVINCIALITY
  The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province. T. Warton.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• PROVINCIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. 2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified;
• EXHIBITER
  One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill. Shak.
• CONSTITUTIVELY
  In a constitutive manner.
• COSMOPOLITAN; COSMOPOLITE
  One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.
• CONSTITUTIONALITY
  1. The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame. 2. The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions. Burke. Constitutionalities, bottomless
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• COMPROVINCIAL
  Belonging to, or associated in, the same province. -- n.
• TRANSDIALECT
  To change or translate from one dialect into another. Bp. Warburton.
• EXTRAPROVINCIAL
  Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction. Ayliffe.