Definition: 1. A country person. 2. Of or associated with a province. 3. Connected with the parts of a country away from the capital city. 4. Someone who comes from a part of a country away from the capital city.
Use 'provincial' in a sentence:
1. Owen died an unknown provincial.
2. Jeremy Styles, 34, was the house manager for a provincial theatre for ten years.
3. There is no sign of an end to the standoff between Mohawk Indians and the Quebec provincial police.
4. The provincial assembly were deaf to all pleas for financial help.
5. Times become more flexible off-season, especially in the smaller provincial museums.
6. Six new members have been inducted into the Provincial Cabinet.
7. Genus age, provincial area and the taxonomic structure of marine faunas.
8. But health care in Canada is a provincial responsibility, not a federal one.
9. Multi-cultural London triumphed over provincial Paris.
10. There must be more than this provincial life!
11. He was afraid of being treated as a provincial if he showed himself too much nonplussed.
12. The audience was dull and very provincial.
13. Her story is sharply evocative of Italian provincial life.
14. Many provincial governments have taken advantage of this to place local interests above those of the central government.
15. He decided to revamp the company's provincial image.
16. Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.
