Provincial - Definition

adj 1: 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]
n 1: (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, provincial, bucolic]