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provincial

/prə'vɪnʃəl/

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noun
a country person
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Similar:

bucolic peasant

type of:
rustic
adjective
characteristic of the provinces or their people
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"deeply provincial and conformist" "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial" "narrow provincial attitudes"

Similar:

untravelled parochial pokey poky rustic stay-at-home unsophisticated untraveled bumpkinly corn-fed hick insular jerkwater one-horse

Opposite:

cosmopolitan
noun
(Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
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"the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"

type of:
official functionary
of or associated with a province
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"provincial government"

Examples of provincial

"deeply provincial and conformist"
"in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"
"narrow provincial attitudes"
"the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
"provincial government"