- Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province;
as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. - Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province;
characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan;
countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. - Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to
the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial
synod. - Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. - A person belonging to a province; one who is
provincial. - 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.