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(1):

(a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

(2):

(a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.

(3):

(a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.

(4):

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.

(5):

(n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.

(6):

(n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.