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What does provincial mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a province.
  2. Constituting a province.
  3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  4. Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
  5. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
  6. Limited in outlook; narrow.
Noun
  1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  2. (Roman Catholicism) 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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