| ADJECTIVE | pert | provincial | of or associated with a province |
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| all | provincial | characteristic of the provinces or their people | |
| NOUN | person | provincial | (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order |
| person | provincial, peasant, bucolic | a country person |
| Sounds | prahvih'nshahl | |
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| Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... | |
| Meaning | Of or associated with a province. | |
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| Example | "provincial government" | |
| Spanish | provincial | |
| Catalan | provincial | |
| Nouns | province | the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
| Adverbs | provincially | by the province |
| Meaning | characteristic of the provinces or their people. | |
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| Narrower | 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 | |
| Opposite | cosmopolitan | Composed of people from or at home / home in many parts of the world |
| Spanish | provincial, provinciano | |
| Catalan | provincial | |
| Nouns | province | the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
| Meaning | (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order. | |
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| Example | "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials" | |
| Category | Roman Catholic, Western Church, Roman Catholic Church, Church of Rome, Roman Church | The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy |
| Broader | official, functionary | A worker who holds or is invested with an office |
| Meaning | A country person. | |
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| Synonyms | peasant, bucolic | |
| Narrower | cotter, cottar | A peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands |
| muzhik, moujik, mujik, muzjik | A Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | |
| Broader | rustic | An unsophisticated country person |
| Spanish | campesino, lugareño, provinciano, pueblerino | |
| Catalan | camperol, pagès, pobletà | |
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