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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
provincial
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a provincial city (=in a part of the country that is not near the capital)
▪ There have been protests in the capital and in provincial cities.
a provincial town (=one that is not near the capital)
▪ Many provincial towns were transformed by the coming of the railway.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
administration
▪ Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.
assembly
▪ This provided for the election by all landowners over the age of twenty-five of representatives to local and provincial assemblies.
▪ The three are fighting over control of the provincial assemblies, which will be important in the run-up to the election.
▪ The delegates sit in a provincial assembly and implement directives from both regional and national capitals.
▪ Press and provincial assemblies hastened to proclaim solidarity with the Tsar.
▪ Preliminary results for elections to a total of 483 seats in the four provincial assemblies were announced on Oct. 29.
▪ The three provincial assemblies together constitute the Territorial Congress.
▪ Mr Ishaq wants all the provincial assemblies dissolved, in order to create a constitutional crisis that will force a general election.
▪ Some of Mr Sharif's infuriated followers then kidnapped the secretary of the provincial assembly, Chaudry Habibullah.
authority
▪ The provincial authorities were to turn over more revenue to the state while receiving reduced subsidies, in order to centralize resources.
▪ Coverage of the Henan scandal also points the finger at inaction by the provincial authorities.
▪ The plenum had been delayed for several months, allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities.
capital
▪ His son trucks the tangerines and apples to the provincial capital, and even down into Henan province.
▪ Each month the district officer spent a whole day writing a full report to the political secretary in the provincial capital.
▪ Coventry was a provincial capital, one of the half-dozen largest provincial cities and the fourth richest.
▪ Meanwhile, a curfew was imposed in Pristina, the provincial capital.
▪ In 1949, for example, the provincial capital of Urumqi had few Han.
▪ The river Aver continues westward past the provincial capital at Averheim and finally flows into the Reik at Nuln.
▪ This thriving group included some of the old provincial capitals such as Bristol, Newcastle and Norwich.
▪ On June 26, 16 people belonging to one family were massacred in the Punjab provincial capital, Lahore.
centres
▪ Similar student protests were held on the same day in provincial centres.
city
▪ But the following month saw a renewed wave of strikes paralyse St Petersburg, Moscow and many provincial cities.
▪ In Britain, the old tradition of private patronage in the great provincial cities is reviving - but not fast enough.
▪ Coventry was a provincial capital, one of the half-dozen largest provincial cities and the fourth richest.
▪ In the first place, since little research had taken place outside London, we chose to investigate a provincial city.
▪ The leading provincial cities were tiny in comparison with the capital.
▪ From that time to this Kiev has evolved, like Naples or Boston, into both a great and a provincial city.
▪ In Iasi, a provincial city in the north-east of the country, more than 70 lawyers and law students attended.
council
▪ The Council is associated with other local authorities represented on the national and provincial councils dealing with local authorities' services.
▪ His five provincial councils were to be appointed rather than indirectly elected and concerned primarily with intergovernmental relations.
election
▪ The Freedom party had already lost support last October and December in two provincial elections.
▪ Yet the premier, facing a provincial election that year, could scarcely halt the growing pressure for public, power.
government
▪ We drove up to the provincial government building in Xiangzhou, a few miles to the north.
▪ Elections to a lower house of parliament would be by proportional representation and an upper house would be appointed by provincial governments.
▪ The philanthropic family's largesse was echoed by surprise announcements from both the Federal and provincial governments.
▪ A reform of provincial government banking was also announced.
▪ The provincial government did not send a team to investigate until August 1.
▪ Some of the no-show gun owners were making a protest, and at least one provincial government has challenged the law.
governor
▪ The reforms were supported by President Carlos Saúl Menem, the other provincial governors and congressional deputies and senators.
▪ New commissars replaced the provincial governors.
▪ He was a Persian provincial governor, whose powers had few limits provided he stayed loyal.
▪ In a decree of October 1856 he strengthened the hand of provincial governors.
▪ Last week one provincial governor was blocked in his attempt to build a new road through the park.
▪ On the provincial commissions the provincial governor or his deputy would take the place of the Interior Ministry official.
▪ Other appointments A number of provincial governors were moved in August 1990.
level
▪ There is no provision for a regional or provincial level of local government.
▪ Only 42 new members were elected to the committee, mostly party or government officials from the central or provincial levels.
▪ Independent lateral contacts at provincial levels were discouraged.
▪ It should not be imagined that the tiny Party élite at either of these provincial levels could maintain a tight hold.
▪ Chief among these special functions was a governmental or administrative duty at either local or provincial level or possibly both.
newspaper
▪ The quality of achievement Two national newspaper mentions may be more important to your client than thirty provincial newspapers and magazines.
▪ The low price helped Notimex become the principal news source for many small provincial newspapers.
▪ Yakovlev, the head of Agitprop and one of the chief architects of the cut-back in provincial newspapers in January.
▪ It is also asking for air-time on radio and television, and for access to national and provincial newspapers and magazines.
▪ The national executive of the union called out on strike all its members on provincial newspapers.
▪ The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers.
▪ At the end of the war, provincial newspaper ownership took three forms.
▪ Others were part of a provincial newspaper group.
press
▪ The implications of concentration of provincial press ownership are greater when its geographical variation is taken into account.
▪ The idea of local radio fitted snugly with local ownership, like the provincial press.
▪ The reciprocal relationship between pamphlet and newspaper insertion was only one way in which reformers used both the London and provincial press.
▪ Numbers of novelists, poets, essayists and artists had early work printed by provincial presses.
▪ For the provincial press, any calculation is complicated by questions of market boundaries and different types of publication.
▪ In the provincial press, and especially the local weeklies, it is more difficult to believe that direct influence was rare.
town
▪ There were reports of demonstrations and lawlessness in some provincial towns.
▪ His provincial town of Flaxborough is a portrait of what might be any somewhat cut-off provincial town anywhere in Britain.
▪ There is growing evidence that white supremacist groups are renewing hate campaigns against Aborigines in some provincial towns.
▪ His provincial town of Flaxborough is a portrait of what might be any somewhat cut-off provincial town anywhere in Britain.
▪ Foremost among provincial towns were a handful of regional capitals with populations upwards of five or six thousand.
▪ In the provincial towns of San Miguel and Santa Ana, the markets were also occupied.
▪ Similar scenes were reported in provincial towns in the vicinity of military camps.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the provincial government of Quebec
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All things considered, the provincial circuit presents a hell of a challenge.
▪ In Britain, the old tradition of private patronage in the great provincial cities is reviving - but not fast enough.
▪ It constituted an even clearer expression of provincial mobilisation and disregard for parliamentary initiative and manoeuvre than 1833.
▪ It was a tentative document that merely asked for provincial legislation enabling municipalities to buy, sell, and distribute electric power.
▪ The provincial groups with papers in two or three towns were little different from the other independents.
▪ The reforms were supported by President Carlos Saúl Menem, the other provincial governors and congressional deputies and senators.
▪ The whole thing struck one as being very provincial.
▪ This provided for the election by all landowners over the age of twenty-five of representatives to local and provincial assemblies.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His request had been accepted without comment by the provincials concerned.
▪ Maybe I was blotting out my past, as provincials do, in my haste to get to where the action was.
▪ Nor were the strongest provincials, United and Associated, dominant in either the quality or the popular national market.
▪ Stormes was a representative of the Jesuit provincial, Father Edward Glynn.
▪ To his left sat Father Jim Stormes, a representative of the Jesuit provincial.
▪ Whatever the case, the provincial was encouraged.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provincial

Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, a. [L. provincialis: cf. F. provincial. See Province, and cf. Provencal.]

  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. [Obs.]

    With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
    --Shak.

Provincial

Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, n.

  1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

  2. (R. C. Ch.) 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
provincial

late 14c., "pertaining to a province," from Old French provincial "belonging to a particular province (of friars)" (13c.), from Latin provincialis "of a province," from provincia (see province).\n

\nMeaning "of the small towns and countryside" (as opposed to the capital and urban center) is from 1630s, a borrowed idiom from French, transferred from sense of "particular to the province," hence "local." Suggestive of rude, petty, or narrow society by 1755. Classical Latin provincialis seems not to have had this tinge. In British use, with reference to the American colonies, from 1680s.

provincial

late 14c., "ecclesiastical head of a province," from provincial (adj.). From c.1600 as "native or inhabitant of a province;" from 1711 as "country person."

Wiktionary
provincial

a. 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. 3 Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. 4 Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a '''provincial''' synod. 5 (context obsolete English) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. 6 limited in outlook; narrow n. 1 A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 2 (context Roman Catholicism English) 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. 3 A country bumpkin.

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WordNet
provincial

  1. adj. of or associated with a province; "provincial government"

  2. characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" [ant: cosmopolitan]

provincial

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

  2. a country person [syn: peasant, bucolic]

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Wikipedia
Provincial

Provincial may refer to:

  • Provincial capitals, an administrative sub-national capital of a country
  • Provincial Osorno, a football club from Chile
  • Provincial examinations, a school-leaving exam in British Columbia, Canada
  • A provincial superior of a religious order
  • The Provincial sector of British Rail, which was later renamed Regional Railways
  • Provincial Airlines, a Canadian airline
  • Provincial park, the equivalent of national parks in the Canadian provinces
  • Provincial city (disambiguation), a type of city in the People's Republic of China
  • Provincial Secretary, a position in Canadian government
  • Provincial Reconstruction Team, a military unit used by Western forces in Afghanistan
  • Provincial council (disambiguation), various meanings
  • Member of Provincial Parliament (disambiguation), a title for legislators in Ontario, Canada as well as Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
  • Sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China
  • Provincial Court, a type of law court in Canada
  • Provincial symbols such as those of Canada
  • Provincial (soldier), a type of regular recruited by the British in their American colonies for service there
  • Provincial (album), the first solo album by John K. Samson
Provincial (album)

Provincial is the debut solo album by John K. Samson, released January 24, 2012 on ANTI-. The album includes re-recorded versions of the six songs from Samson's earlier EPs City Route 85 and Provincial Road 222, as well as six songs not heard on those EPs.

The album was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize on June 14, 2012.

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Usage examples of "provincial".

Jose Barreda, the Father Provincial of the missions, in a curious letter under date of August 2nd, 1753, tells the Marquis of Valdelirios that he fears not only that the 30,000 Indians resident in the seven towns may rebel, but that they may be joined by the Indians of the other reductions, and that it is possible they may all apostatize and return to the woods.

Having done all this, early in December the provincial congress of Massachusets prorogued themselves, appointing a new meeting in the ensuing month of February.

An extreme autonomist and anticentralist, a strong Union Nationaliste of the Duplessis vintage, his credentials gave him some standing in the provincial Party, but they made him anathema to large portions of the rest of Canada.

Van Buskirk of Montreal exotic reflective glasswares and glass-blowing hardware and broom and ordnance and survivalist cookware and hip postcards and black-lather gag soap and cheesy old low-demand InterLace 3rd-Grid cartridges and hand-buzzers and fraudulent but seductive X-ray spectacles and they were sent through the remains of Provincial Autoroute 557 U.

Du Boung was a man rapidly growing into provincial eminence, and jumped at the offer.

Rod, do you realize how big a deal the marriage of Crucis Court and the Fowler heir will be in a provincial capital?

The acquiescence of the provincials encouraged their governors to acquire, or perhaps to usurp, a discretionary power of employing the rack, to extort from vagrants or plebeian criminals the confession of their guilt, till they insensibly proceeded to confound the distinction of rank, and to disregard the privileges of Roman citizens.

They vary in scale from the single tiresome litigious individual with an old-fashioned clutching mind, through a long range of associations, cities and provincial councils, to the resuscitated sovereign governments of the war period.

The number of Chinamen in Manilla and throughout the islands is very great, and nearly the whole provincial trade in manufactured goods is in their hands.

Then they talked about provincial mediocrity, of the lives it crushed, the illusions lost there.

Dux to the Comes, I do not think we can, with the Notitia before us, assert that the Provincial Duces were regularly subordinated to the Diocesan Comes, as the Provincial Consulares were to the Diocesan Vicarius.

The ponderous volumes of the Codes and Pandects would furnish ample materials for a minute inquiry into the system of provincial government, as in the space of six centuries it was approved by the wisdom of the Roman statesmen and lawyers.

During the autumn all the evidence suggests that the provincial assemblies did in fact begin their work in earnest and that Parlementaire protests became desultory and ineffective.

But this is not the whole evil: this new class, with its unnatural preponderance, is a class hostile to the institutions of the country, hostile to the union of Church and State, hostile to the House of Lords, to the constitutional power of the Crown, to the existing system of provincial judicature.

The government of the kasir succeeded, by exciting the jealousy of Magyar and German, Croat and Hungarian, metropolitan and provincial, in holding the difficult balance, and in preserving the empire in its integrity from the flood which flowed over it with such disintegrating force.