provincial
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
美 /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
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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.
— The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
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A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
— Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?
- A country bumpkin.
形容词 adj.
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Of or pertaining to a province.
— a provincial government
- Constituting a province.
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Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
— […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.
- Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
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Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude.
— That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.
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Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
— a provincial synod
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.
词源 2
From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.
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