Definition of provincial in English:

provincial

adjective prəˈvɪnʃ(ə)lprəˈvɪn(t)ʃ(ə)l

1Of or concerning a province of a country or empire.
省的
provincial elections
省级选举。
Example sentencesExamples
- The accident occurred some 8 kilometers west of Siem Reap town, the provincial capital where the famed temple of Angkor Wat is located.
- No separatist party in the history of the province has ever gotten over 50% in a federal election, provincial election, or a referendum.
- The teachers threatened to stage a sit-in outside the provincial governor's house if the problem was not resolved.
- He had travelled there from the town of Yopal, the provincial capital of the wealthy oil province Casanare.
- Referring to electoral reform, government said it would implement the decision to review this matter before the next national and provincial elections set for 2009.
- Last weekend the fledgling party, less than a year old, held its second congress and outlined their program for the next provincial election.
- Some rural regions are close to urban centres, such as the regions of Manitoba that surround Winnipeg, the provincial capital with 600,000 people.
- The total number who voted in the city election in Toronto was 699,000, compared to 850,000 in the provincial election.
- In recent decades the area around the provincial capital of Kunming has developed as an industrial region with an increasing need for electric power.
- As the next provincial election must be called by May, I believe it's time for us to consider what the past terms of the NDP government have brought to this province.
- Sono told the court he had voted at national level for the African National Congress in the 1994 elections and his provincial vote went to the Inkatha Freedom Party.
- Born in 1948, he grew up in Halifax and Shad Bay, a small coastal community just outside the provincial capital.
- The march led to traffic being blocked, before it came to a halt outside the provincial governor's office.
- Our final day's sightseeing started in Sancti Spiritus, the provincial capital of the region of the same name, where the holiday celebrations were in full swing.
- The provincial election in Alberta is fast approaching with a November 22nd or 29th vote.
- He proposed instead to abolish the direct election of provincial governors, thus undermining the constitution and doing away with the country's political foundation of federalism.
- He said observers and journalists could watch the first stage of the count at the polling stations, but not at provincial election commission centers where the results are tabulated.
- The Elections Finance Act prohibits most forms of political advertising for the initial week of a provincial election campaign, the day before voting day and day of the vote.
- Another reason for low results is that people just didn't feel as informed as they did for the provincial election and decided that voting would therefore be a waste.
- Another aspect of the de-democratization policy of the provincial government concerns elections.
Synonyms
non-metropolitan, small-town, non-urban, outlying, rural, country, rustic, backwoods, backwater
informal one-horse
North American informal hick, freshwater
2Of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
京都大邑以外地方的，外省的，外地的
provincial towns
省级选举。
the whole exhibition struck one as being very provincial
Example sentencesExamples
- Elites in provincial towns in predominantly indigenous regions are often openly racist.
- It is annoying; I liked the t-shirt I was wearing and now I have to iron the pink one that gets me into trouble in provincial villages.
- The son of a wealthy Verona businessman, Catullus arrived in Rome in his early twenties and rapidly evolved from educated but provincial outsider to streetwise society songmeister.
- In terms of industry and employment Dungarvan, it has to be fairly acknowledged, ranks better than most provincial towns of its size.
- It also gives us the opportunity to monitor players outside of the provincial competitions.
- This is highly thoughtful architecture that despite the provincial nature of its setting makes a point of being decent, modern and civilized.
- Although quite provincial, Odense boasted the only theater in Denmark outside of Copenhagen, and this was to prove Andersen's salvation.
- Today there are many professional and amateur theaters and musical organizations both in the capital and in other provincial towns.
- A young woman in her twenties returns from the capital city to a provincial town where she grew up.
- A new phenomenon of rolling demonstrations circled the world - not only in the great capitals but also in provincial cities and even small towns.
- Acadians brought with them provincial cooking styles from France.
- Mr Cowlam also disclosed that the Bradford bid was well-starred because the Government demanded that provincial workforces be as diverse as those in the capital.
- You used to be able to boast that Harvey Nicks was the only provincial store outside London but not any more.
- Already, colourful posters conveying party messages can be seen in public places in the capital Kabul, and in some provincial towns.
- Well over €1million an acre is being achieved for retail parks outside provincial towns.
- For 10 or 15 years beforehand, our regions and provincial towns had largely been left to sink or swim.
- Hundreds of thousands joined protests in the Syrian capital, while in provincial towns tens of thousands took to the streets.
- How can Reykjavik give every appearance of being a capital city rather than merely a provincial town?
- Market towns have become provincial backwaters.
- For all over Ireland, ribbon development of houses persists outside provincial towns and one-off badly sited homes are built without regard for the landscape as a whole.
Synonyms
regional, state, territorial, district, local
sectoral, zonal, cantonal, county, parochial
colonial
unsophisticated, narrow-minded, parochial, small-town, suburban, insular, parish-pump, inward-looking, limited, restricted, localist, conservative, narrow
small-minded, petty, blinkered, illiberal, inflexible, bigoted, prejudiced, intolerant
North American informal jerkwater, corn-fed

noun prəˈvɪnʃ(ə)lprəˈvɪn(t)ʃ(ə)l

1An inhabitant of a province of a country or empire.
省的
Example sentencesExamples
- They were primarily divided into three categories - trade unions, groups of provincials from the same hometown outside of Shanghai, and merchant associations for the regulation of trade.
- Roman citizens paid little tax, but provincials paid a property tax and a poll tax amounting to 10 or 15 percent of income.
- The proud son of the Franche-Comte was on his way to success in Paris when he met Bruyas, an art collector and a provincial from another region of France.
- Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother.
1. 1.1provincials (in Canada) sporting contests held between teams representing the country's administrative divisions.
  〈加〉（由代表国内各行政区运动队参赛的）省际体育比赛
  Example sentencesExamples
  Niverville rolled through the round robin at the provincials without a loss scoring four straight-set victories.
  Meanwhile, the Pre-Novice Dance team of Melanie Van Soeren and William Denney will be at the Western Challenge thanks to placing third at the provincials.
  ‘This is my fifth year coaching at the provincials,’ said Yeomans.
  Walking into the house we saw copies of pictures of Rachel and I from her birth until just last summer when her soccer team won provincials.
  The boys' baseball team will be competing at the 12-team provincials June 5-7 at Reston.
  They're becoming more serious as the provincials and Western Championship get closer.
  The losses eliminated the team from the provincials and finished their season earlier than they had expected.
  The selectors will shortly be announcing a squad of 28 men and women for the provincials and a squad of 16 for the senior provincials.
  The OUA provincials will commence on February 21 at Westmount Golf and Country Club.
  She had a good showing at provincials and I think she can pull it off.
2An inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
（尤指被视为低俗狭隘的都城以外地区居民）外省人，外地人，地方居民
a town populated by money-grubbers, philistines, and self-satisfied provincials
Example sentencesExamples
- Ask yourself why countless numbers of people (maybe provincials like yourself) like lemmings are fleeing the capital?
- But then people stopped wearing dunces-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant.
- Instead it reminds us that men such as Dabney were hardly rustic provincials.
- Sophisticated and chic, it's a really a new experience for us provincials.
- You are not provincials, she reminds them, you are citizens of a broader Europe.
Synonyms
(country) bumpkin, country cousin, rustic, yokel, village idiot, peasant, churl, lout, boor, oaf, clown, barbarian, yahoo
Irish, derogatory culchie, bogman
informal clod, clodhopper
British informal yob, yobbo, plonker
North American informal schlub, hayseed, hick, rube, hillbilly
Australian informal ocker
rare bucolic
1. 2.1provincialsBritish Local newspapers, as contrasted with national ones.
  〈英〉（相对于全国性报纸而言的）地方报纸
  Example sentencesExamples
  He argues against the use of nonstandard dialogue for the sake of local color or to make the social point that provincials can have literary status.
  For a front-page photo in the provincials, the rate is $100, and it varies for the photos used for the national publication.
  You have not said, are you working for the nationals or provincials? I cannot see why they need you for Saturday work, unless you are covering sports events.
3Christian Church
The head or chief of a province or of a religious order in a province.
〔基督教〕（管辖教省的）大主教（或都主教）
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1971 Fr. Vincent was asked by his provincial to go to the diocese of Kumasi in Ghana, where he spent most of his remaining years.
- By 1923, the Capuchin provincial asked Solanus to keep a notebook of special cases and reported healings related to his consultations.
- It does say that he was upset with the poor catechetical materials used in parishes in Australia and that his provincial reprimanded him for preaching on hell.
- As provincial of his order, he addressed temperance meetings throughout Ireland.

Derivatives

provinciality

noun

Over the generations, men who saw themselves as metropolitan sophisticates traveled to America and were suddenly confronted with their own provinciality.
Example sentencesExamples
- One of the initial consequences of the shrinking of Iapetus was a gradual decline in the provinciality of fossils.
- The Early Devonian saw a decline to 20 genera, with a slow return by the end of the Pragian, a tectonically active phase marked by global sea level drawdowns, and provinciality.
- Maynard does say a good deal about his dissatisfaction with life in the United States: the human emptiness of California, the provinciality of Washington.
- To be smug about any locale - even New York City - is itself a mark of provinciality and bad taste.

provincialization

noun

The council is to ask the provincial government to provide it with an implementation action plan for the provincialisation of emergency medical and rescue services.
Example sentencesExamples
- Contemporary dacha settlements, according to Lovell, can be seen variously as ‘a symptom of the provincialization of city life,’ ‘evidence of the peasantization of Russia's ‘middle class’,’ or ‘a form of shanty exurbanization.’
- With promotion being the spirit of the times, football's provincialisation is considered a bane by many of the sport's pundits.
- No doubt, too, Labour concluded that provincialization inhibited its effective involvement in national policy-making.
- One could even say that the American artistic and literary culture has a tendency toward ‘provincialization.’

provincialize

verb

provincially

adverb prəˈvɪnʃ(ə)liprəˈvɪn(t)ʃəli

While we have never had an adequate or accessible childcare program, either nationally or provincially, the provincial government's recent cuts and legislation changes include further targeting of childcare programs.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘Health care is a provincially mandated service,’ said McKeon Holmes.
- It's remarkable [because] he's been in politics five years provincially, that it has taken him this long, but what can you say?
- He's bright, he's articulate, he knows and understand politics, he's worked federally and provincially, he gets the business play - I think he'd be a great mayor.
- It really does impact the broad range of government activities, federally, provincially and municipally in a very real way.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin provincialis 'belonging to a province' (see province).

Definition of provincial in US English:

provincial

adjectiveprəˈvin(t)SH(ə)lprəˈvɪn(t)ʃ(ə)l

1Of or concerning a province of a country or empire.
省的
provincial elections
省级选举。
Example sentencesExamples
- The accident occurred some 8 kilometers west of Siem Reap town, the provincial capital where the famed temple of Angkor Wat is located.
- Some rural regions are close to urban centres, such as the regions of Manitoba that surround Winnipeg, the provincial capital with 600,000 people.
- Another reason for low results is that people just didn't feel as informed as they did for the provincial election and decided that voting would therefore be a waste.
- Born in 1948, he grew up in Halifax and Shad Bay, a small coastal community just outside the provincial capital.
- No separatist party in the history of the province has ever gotten over 50% in a federal election, provincial election, or a referendum.
- In recent decades the area around the provincial capital of Kunming has developed as an industrial region with an increasing need for electric power.
- The Elections Finance Act prohibits most forms of political advertising for the initial week of a provincial election campaign, the day before voting day and day of the vote.
- As the next provincial election must be called by May, I believe it's time for us to consider what the past terms of the NDP government have brought to this province.
- Our final day's sightseeing started in Sancti Spiritus, the provincial capital of the region of the same name, where the holiday celebrations were in full swing.
- He proposed instead to abolish the direct election of provincial governors, thus undermining the constitution and doing away with the country's political foundation of federalism.
- The provincial election in Alberta is fast approaching with a November 22nd or 29th vote.
- Sono told the court he had voted at national level for the African National Congress in the 1994 elections and his provincial vote went to the Inkatha Freedom Party.
- Referring to electoral reform, government said it would implement the decision to review this matter before the next national and provincial elections set for 2009.
- He had travelled there from the town of Yopal, the provincial capital of the wealthy oil province Casanare.
- Another aspect of the de-democratization policy of the provincial government concerns elections.
- Last weekend the fledgling party, less than a year old, held its second congress and outlined their program for the next provincial election.
- The march led to traffic being blocked, before it came to a halt outside the provincial governor's office.
- He said observers and journalists could watch the first stage of the count at the polling stations, but not at provincial election commission centers where the results are tabulated.
- The teachers threatened to stage a sit-in outside the provincial governor's house if the problem was not resolved.
- The total number who voted in the city election in Toronto was 699,000, compared to 850,000 in the provincial election.
Synonyms
non-metropolitan, small-town, non-urban, outlying, rural, country, rustic, backwoods, backwater
2Of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
京都大邑以外地方的，外省的，外地的
the whole exhibition struck one as being very provincial
scenes of violence were reported in provincial towns
外地小城镇的暴力场面被报道了。
Example sentencesExamples
- The son of a wealthy Verona businessman, Catullus arrived in Rome in his early twenties and rapidly evolved from educated but provincial outsider to streetwise society songmeister.
- Acadians brought with them provincial cooking styles from France.
- In terms of industry and employment Dungarvan, it has to be fairly acknowledged, ranks better than most provincial towns of its size.
- Well over €1million an acre is being achieved for retail parks outside provincial towns.
- Mr Cowlam also disclosed that the Bradford bid was well-starred because the Government demanded that provincial workforces be as diverse as those in the capital.
- It is annoying; I liked the t-shirt I was wearing and now I have to iron the pink one that gets me into trouble in provincial villages.
- A young woman in her twenties returns from the capital city to a provincial town where she grew up.
- You used to be able to boast that Harvey Nicks was the only provincial store outside London but not any more.
- Today there are many professional and amateur theaters and musical organizations both in the capital and in other provincial towns.
- It also gives us the opportunity to monitor players outside of the provincial competitions.
- Market towns have become provincial backwaters.
- For all over Ireland, ribbon development of houses persists outside provincial towns and one-off badly sited homes are built without regard for the landscape as a whole.
- How can Reykjavik give every appearance of being a capital city rather than merely a provincial town?
- Elites in provincial towns in predominantly indigenous regions are often openly racist.
- Hundreds of thousands joined protests in the Syrian capital, while in provincial towns tens of thousands took to the streets.
- A new phenomenon of rolling demonstrations circled the world - not only in the great capitals but also in provincial cities and even small towns.
- Although quite provincial, Odense boasted the only theater in Denmark outside of Copenhagen, and this was to prove Andersen's salvation.
- This is highly thoughtful architecture that despite the provincial nature of its setting makes a point of being decent, modern and civilized.
- For 10 or 15 years beforehand, our regions and provincial towns had largely been left to sink or swim.
- Already, colourful posters conveying party messages can be seen in public places in the capital Kabul, and in some provincial towns.
Synonyms
regional, state, territorial, district, local
unsophisticated, narrow-minded, parochial, small-town, suburban, insular, parish-pump, inward-looking, limited, restricted, localist, conservative, narrow

nounprəˈvin(t)SH(ə)lprəˈvɪn(t)ʃ(ə)l

1An inhabitant of a province of a country or empire.
省的
Example sentencesExamples
- Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother.
- They were primarily divided into three categories - trade unions, groups of provincials from the same hometown outside of Shanghai, and merchant associations for the regulation of trade.
- The proud son of the Franche-Comte was on his way to success in Paris when he met Bruyas, an art collector and a provincial from another region of France.
- Roman citizens paid little tax, but provincials paid a property tax and a poll tax amounting to 10 or 15 percent of income.
1. 1.1provincials (in Canada) athletic contests held between teams representing the country's administrative divisions.
  〈加〉（由代表国内各行政区运动队参赛的）省际体育比赛
  Example sentencesExamples
  Walking into the house we saw copies of pictures of Rachel and I from her birth until just last summer when her soccer team won provincials.
  The boys' baseball team will be competing at the 12-team provincials June 5-7 at Reston.
  Meanwhile, the Pre-Novice Dance team of Melanie Van Soeren and William Denney will be at the Western Challenge thanks to placing third at the provincials.
  Niverville rolled through the round robin at the provincials without a loss scoring four straight-set victories.
  ‘This is my fifth year coaching at the provincials,’ said Yeomans.
  She had a good showing at provincials and I think she can pull it off.
  The OUA provincials will commence on February 21 at Westmount Golf and Country Club.
  The losses eliminated the team from the provincials and finished their season earlier than they had expected.
  The selectors will shortly be announcing a squad of 28 men and women for the provincials and a squad of 16 for the senior provincials.
  They're becoming more serious as the provincials and Western Championship get closer.
2An inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
（尤指被视为低俗狭隘的都城以外地区居民）外省人，外地人，地方居民
Example sentencesExamples
- But then people stopped wearing dunces-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant.
- Ask yourself why countless numbers of people (maybe provincials like yourself) like lemmings are fleeing the capital?
- Instead it reminds us that men such as Dabney were hardly rustic provincials.
- You are not provincials, she reminds them, you are citizens of a broader Europe.
- Sophisticated and chic, it's a really a new experience for us provincials.
Synonyms
bumpkin, country bumpkin, country cousin, rustic, yokel, village idiot, peasant, churl, lout, boor, oaf, clown, barbarian, yahoo
3Christian Church
The head or chief of a province or of a religious order in a province.
〔基督教〕（管辖教省的）大主教（或都主教）
Example sentencesExamples
- As provincial of his order, he addressed temperance meetings throughout Ireland.
- In 1971 Fr. Vincent was asked by his provincial to go to the diocese of Kumasi in Ghana, where he spent most of his remaining years.
- It does say that he was upset with the poor catechetical materials used in parishes in Australia and that his provincial reprimanded him for preaching on hell.
- By 1923, the Capuchin provincial asked Solanus to keep a notebook of special cases and reported healings related to his consultations.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin provincialis ‘belonging to a province’ (see province).

词汇	provincial
释义	Definition of provincial in English: provincial adjective prəˈvɪnʃ(ə)lprəˈvɪn(t)ʃ(ə)l 1Of or concerning a province of a country or empire. 省的 provincial elections 省级选举。 Example sentencesExamples The accident occurred some 8 kilometers west of Siem Reap town, the provincial capital where the famed temple of Angkor Wat is located. No separatist party in the history of the province has ever gotten over 50% in a federal election, provincial election, or a referendum. The teachers threatened to stage a sit-in outside the provincial governor's house if the problem was not resolved. He had travelled there from the town of Yopal, the provincial capital of the wealthy oil province Casanare. Referring to electoral reform, government said it would implement the decision to review this matter before the next national and provincial elections set for 2009. Last weekend the fledgling party, less than a year old, held its second congress and outlined their program for the next provincial election. Some rural regions are close to urban centres, such as the regions of Manitoba that surround Winnipeg, the provincial capital with 600,000 people. The total number who voted in the city election in Toronto was 699,000, compared to 850,000 in the provincial election. In recent decades the area around the provincial capital of Kunming has developed as an industrial region with an increasing need for electric power. As the next provincial election must be called by May, I believe it's time for us to consider what the past terms of the NDP government have brought to this province. Sono told the court he had voted at national level for the African National Congress in the 1994 elections and his provincial vote went to the Inkatha Freedom Party. Born in 1948, he grew up in Halifax and Shad Bay, a small coastal community just outside the provincial capital. The march led to traffic being blocked, before it came to a halt outside the provincial governor's office. Our final day's sightseeing started in Sancti Spiritus, the provincial capital of the region of the same name, where the holiday celebrations were in full swing. The provincial election in Alberta is fast approaching with a November 22nd or 29th vote. He proposed instead to abolish the direct election of provincial governors, thus undermining the constitution and doing away with the country's political foundation of federalism. He said observers and journalists could watch the first stage of the count at the polling stations, but not at provincial election commission centers where the results are tabulated. The Elections Finance Act prohibits most forms of political advertising for the initial week of a provincial election campaign, the day before voting day and day of the vote. Another reason for low results is that people just didn't feel as informed as they did for the provincial election and decided that voting would therefore be a waste. Another aspect of the de-democratization policy of the provincial government concerns elections. Synonyms non-metropolitan, small-town, non-urban, outlying, rural, country, rustic, backwoods, backwater informal one-horse North American informal hick, freshwater 2Of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded. 京都大邑以外地方的，外省的，外地的 provincial towns 省级选举。 the whole exhibition struck one as being very provincial Example sentencesExamples Elites in provincial towns in predominantly indigenous regions are often openly racist. It is annoying; I liked the t-shirt I was wearing and now I have to iron the pink one that gets me into trouble in provincial villages. The son of a wealthy Verona businessman, Catullus arrived in Rome in his early twenties and rapidly evolved from educated but provincial outsider to streetwise society songmeister. In terms of industry and employment Dungarvan, it has to be fairly acknowledged, ranks better than most provincial towns of its size. It also gives us the opportunity to monitor players outside of the provincial competitions. This is highly thoughtful architecture that despite the provincial nature of its setting makes a point of being decent, modern and civilized. Although quite provincial, Odense boasted the only theater in Denmark outside of Copenhagen, and this was to prove Andersen's salvation. Today there are many professional and amateur theaters and musical organizations both in the capital and in other provincial towns. A young woman in her twenties returns from the capital city to a provincial town where she grew up. A new phenomenon of rolling demonstrations circled the world - not only in the great capitals but also in provincial cities and even small towns. Acadians brought with them provincial cooking styles from France. Mr Cowlam also disclosed that the Bradford bid was well-starred because the Government demanded that provincial workforces be as diverse as those in the capital. You used to be able to boast that Harvey Nicks was the only provincial store outside London but not any more. Already, colourful posters conveying party messages can be seen in public places in the capital Kabul, and in some provincial towns. Well over €1million an acre is being achieved for retail parks outside provincial towns. For 10 or 15 years beforehand, our regions and provincial towns had largely been left to sink or swim. Hundreds of thousands joined protests in the Syrian capital, while in provincial towns tens of thousands took to the streets. How can Reykjavik give every appearance of being a capital city rather than merely a provincial town? Market towns have become provincial backwaters. For all over Ireland, ribbon development of houses persists outside provincial towns and one-off badly sited homes are built without regard for the landscape as a whole. Synonyms regional, state, territorial, district, local sectoral, zonal, cantonal, county, parochial colonial unsophisticated, narrow-minded, parochial, small-town, suburban, insular, parish-pump, inward-looking, limited, restricted, localist, conservative, narrow small-minded, petty, blinkered, illiberal, inflexible, bigoted, prejudiced, intolerant North American informal jerkwater, corn-fed noun prəˈvɪnʃ(ə)lprəˈvɪn(t)ʃ(ə)l 1An inhabitant of a province of a country or empire. 省的 Example sentencesExamples They were primarily divided into three categories - trade unions, groups of provincials from the same hometown outside of Shanghai, and merchant associations for the regulation of trade. Roman citizens paid little tax, but provincials paid a property tax and a poll tax amounting to 10 or 15 percent of income. The proud son of the Franche-Comte was on his way to success in Paris when he met Bruyas, an art collector and a provincial from another region of France. Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother. 1.1provincials (in Canada) sporting contests held between teams representing the country's administrative divisions. 〈加〉（由代表国内各行政区运动队参赛的）省际体育比赛 Example sentencesExamples Niverville rolled through the round robin at the provincials without a loss scoring four straight-set victories. Meanwhile, the Pre-Novice Dance team of Melanie Van Soeren and William Denney will be at the Western Challenge thanks to placing third at the provincials. ‘This is my fifth year coaching at the provincials,’ said Yeomans. Walking into the house we saw copies of pictures of Rachel and I from her birth until just last summer when her soccer team won provincials. The boys' baseball team will be competing at the 12-team provincials June 5-7 at Reston. They're becoming more serious as the provincials and Western Championship get closer. The losses eliminated the team from the provincials and finished their season earlier than they had expected. The selectors will shortly be announcing a squad of 28 men and women for the provincials and a squad of 16 for the senior provincials. The OUA provincials will commence on February 21 at Westmount Golf and Country Club. She had a good showing at provincials and I think she can pull it off. 2An inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded. （尤指被视为低俗狭隘的都城以外地区居民）外省人，外地人，地方居民 a town populated by money-grubbers, philistines, and self-satisfied provincials Example sentencesExamples Ask yourself why countless numbers of people (maybe provincials like yourself) like lemmings are fleeing the capital? But then people stopped wearing dunces-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant. Instead it reminds us that men such as Dabney were hardly rustic provincials. Sophisticated and chic, it's a really a new experience for us provincials. You are not provincials, she reminds them, you are citizens of a broader Europe. Synonyms (country) bumpkin, country cousin, rustic, yokel, village idiot, peasant, churl, lout, boor, oaf, clown, barbarian, yahoo Irish, derogatory culchie, bogman informal clod, clodhopper British informal yob, yobbo, plonker North American informal schlub, hayseed, hick, rube, hillbilly Australian informal ocker rare bucolic 2.1provincialsBritish Local newspapers, as contrasted with national ones. 〈英〉（相对于全国性报纸而言的）地方报纸 Example sentencesExamples He argues against the use of nonstandard dialogue for the sake of local color or to make the social point that provincials can have literary status. For a front-page photo in the provincials, the rate is $100, and it varies for the photos used for the national publication. You have not said, are you working for the nationals or provincials? I cannot see why they need you for Saturday work, unless you are covering sports events. 3Christian Church The head or chief of a province or of a religious order in a province. 〔基督教〕（管辖教省的）大主教（或都主教） Example sentencesExamples In 1971 Fr. Vincent was asked by his provincial to go to the diocese of Kumasi in Ghana, where he spent most of his remaining years. By 1923, the Capuchin provincial asked Solanus to keep a notebook of special cases and reported healings related to his consultations. It does say that he was upset with the poor catechetical materials used in parishes in Australia and that his provincial reprimanded him for preaching on hell. As provincial of his order, he addressed temperance meetings throughout Ireland. Derivatives provinciality noun Over the generations, men who saw themselves as metropolitan sophisticates traveled to America and were suddenly confronted with their own provinciality. Example sentencesExamples One of the initial consequences of the shrinking of Iapetus was a gradual decline in the provinciality of fossils. The Early Devonian saw a decline to 20 genera, with a slow return by the end of the Pragian, a tectonically active phase marked by global sea level drawdowns, and provinciality. Maynard does say a good deal about his dissatisfaction with life in the United States: the human emptiness of California, the provinciality of Washington. To be smug about any locale - even New York City - is itself a mark of provinciality and bad taste. provincialization noun The council is to ask the provincial government to provide it with an implementation action plan for the provincialisation of emergency medical and rescue services. Example sentencesExamples Contemporary dacha settlements, according to Lovell, can be seen variously as ‘a symptom of the provincialization of city life,’ ‘evidence of the peasantization of Russia's ‘middle class’,’ or ‘a form of shanty exurbanization.’ With promotion being the spirit of the times, football's provincialisation is considered a bane by many of the sport's pundits. No doubt, too, Labour concluded that provincialization inhibited its effective involvement in national policy-making. One could even say that the American artistic and literary culture has a tendency toward ‘provincialization.’ provincialize verb provincially adverb prəˈvɪnʃ(ə)liprəˈvɪn(t)ʃəli While we have never had an adequate or accessible childcare program, either nationally or provincially, the provincial government's recent cuts and legislation changes include further targeting of childcare programs. Example sentencesExamples ‘Health care is a provincially mandated service,’ said McKeon Holmes. It's remarkable [because] he's been in politics five years provincially, that it has taken him this long, but what can you say? He's bright, he's articulate, he knows and understand politics, he's worked federally and provincially, he gets the business play - I think he'd be a great mayor. It really does impact the broad range of government activities, federally, provincially and municipally in a very real way. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin provincialis 'belonging to a province' (see province). Definition of provincial in US English: provincial adjectiveprəˈvin(t)SH(ə)lprəˈvɪn(t)ʃ(ə)l 1Of or concerning a province of a country or empire. 省的 provincial elections 省级选举。 Example sentencesExamples The accident occurred some 8 kilometers west of Siem Reap town, the provincial capital where the famed temple of Angkor Wat is located. Some rural regions are close to urban centres, such as the regions of Manitoba that surround Winnipeg, the provincial capital with 600,000 people. Another reason for low results is that people just didn't feel as informed as they did for the provincial election and decided that voting would therefore be a waste. Born in 1948, he grew up in Halifax and Shad Bay, a small coastal community just outside the provincial capital. No separatist party in the history of the province has ever gotten over 50% in a federal election, provincial election, or a referendum. In recent decades the area around the provincial capital of Kunming has developed as an industrial region with an increasing need for electric power. The Elections Finance Act prohibits most forms of political advertising for the initial week of a provincial election campaign, the day before voting day and day of the vote. As the next provincial election must be called by May, I believe it's time for us to consider what the past terms of the NDP government have brought to this province. Our final day's sightseeing started in Sancti Spiritus, the provincial capital of the region of the same name, where the holiday celebrations were in full swing. He proposed instead to abolish the direct election of provincial governors, thus undermining the constitution and doing away with the country's political foundation of federalism. The provincial election in Alberta is fast approaching with a November 22nd or 29th vote. Sono told the court he had voted at national level for the African National Congress in the 1994 elections and his provincial vote went to the Inkatha Freedom Party. Referring to electoral reform, government said it would implement the decision to review this matter before the next national and provincial elections set for 2009. He had travelled there from the town of Yopal, the provincial capital of the wealthy oil province Casanare. Another aspect of the de-democratization policy of the provincial government concerns elections. Last weekend the fledgling party, less than a year old, held its second congress and outlined their program for the next provincial election. The march led to traffic being blocked, before it came to a halt outside the provincial governor's office. He said observers and journalists could watch the first stage of the count at the polling stations, but not at provincial election commission centers where the results are tabulated. The teachers threatened to stage a sit-in outside the provincial governor's house if the problem was not resolved. The total number who voted in the city election in Toronto was 699,000, compared to 850,000 in the provincial election. Synonyms non-metropolitan, small-town, non-urban, outlying, rural, country, rustic, backwoods, backwater 2Of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded. 京都大邑以外地方的，外省的，外地的 the whole exhibition struck one as being very provincial scenes of violence were reported in provincial towns 外地小城镇的暴力场面被报道了。 Example sentencesExamples The son of a wealthy Verona businessman, Catullus arrived in Rome in his early twenties and rapidly evolved from educated but provincial outsider to streetwise society songmeister. Acadians brought with them provincial cooking styles from France. In terms of industry and employment Dungarvan, it has to be fairly acknowledged, ranks better than most provincial towns of its size. Well over €1million an acre is being achieved for retail parks outside provincial towns. Mr Cowlam also disclosed that the Bradford bid was well-starred because the Government demanded that provincial workforces be as diverse as those in the capital. It is annoying; I liked the t-shirt I was wearing and now I have to iron the pink one that gets me into trouble in provincial villages. A young woman in her twenties returns from the capital city to a provincial town where she grew up. You used to be able to boast that Harvey Nicks was the only provincial store outside London but not any more. Today there are many professional and amateur theaters and musical organizations both in the capital and in other provincial towns. It also gives us the opportunity to monitor players outside of the provincial competitions. Market towns have become provincial backwaters. For all over Ireland, ribbon development of houses persists outside provincial towns and one-off badly sited homes are built without regard for the landscape as a whole. How can Reykjavik give every appearance of being a capital city rather than merely a provincial town? Elites in provincial towns in predominantly indigenous regions are often openly racist. Hundreds of thousands joined protests in the Syrian capital, while in provincial towns tens of thousands took to the streets. A new phenomenon of rolling demonstrations circled the world - not only in the great capitals but also in provincial cities and even small towns. Although quite provincial, Odense boasted the only theater in Denmark outside of Copenhagen, and this was to prove Andersen's salvation. This is highly thoughtful architecture that despite the provincial nature of its setting makes a point of being decent, modern and civilized. For 10 or 15 years beforehand, our regions and provincial towns had largely been left to sink or swim. Already, colourful posters conveying party messages can be seen in public places in the capital Kabul, and in some provincial towns. Synonyms regional, state, territorial, district, local unsophisticated, narrow-minded, parochial, small-town, suburban, insular, parish-pump, inward-looking, limited, restricted, localist, conservative, narrow nounprəˈvin(t)SH(ə)lprəˈvɪn(t)ʃ(ə)l 1An inhabitant of a province of a country or empire. 省的 Example sentencesExamples Augustine was a local boy who made good, a provincial from the southern edge of Fourth-Century Roman Africa, vain and enslaved to a fierce mother. They were primarily divided into three categories - trade unions, groups of provincials from the same hometown outside of Shanghai, and merchant associations for the regulation of trade. The proud son of the Franche-Comte was on his way to success in Paris when he met Bruyas, an art collector and a provincial from another region of France. Roman citizens paid little tax, but provincials paid a property tax and a poll tax amounting to 10 or 15 percent of income. 1.1provincials (in Canada) athletic contests held between teams representing the country's administrative divisions. 〈加〉（由代表国内各行政区运动队参赛的）省际体育比赛 Example sentencesExamples Walking into the house we saw copies of pictures of Rachel and I from her birth until just last summer when her soccer team won provincials. The boys' baseball team will be competing at the 12-team provincials June 5-7 at Reston. Meanwhile, the Pre-Novice Dance team of Melanie Van Soeren and William Denney will be at the Western Challenge thanks to placing third at the provincials. Niverville rolled through the round robin at the provincials without a loss scoring four straight-set victories. ‘This is my fifth year coaching at the provincials,’ said Yeomans. She had a good showing at provincials and I think she can pull it off. The OUA provincials will commence on February 21 at Westmount Golf and Country Club. The losses eliminated the team from the provincials and finished their season earlier than they had expected. The selectors will shortly be announcing a squad of 28 men and women for the provincials and a squad of 16 for the senior provincials. They're becoming more serious as the provincials and Western Championship get closer. 2An inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded. （尤指被视为低俗狭隘的都城以外地区居民）外省人，外地人，地方居民 Example sentencesExamples But then people stopped wearing dunces-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant. Ask yourself why countless numbers of people (maybe provincials like yourself) like lemmings are fleeing the capital? Instead it reminds us that men such as Dabney were hardly rustic provincials. You are not provincials, she reminds them, you are citizens of a broader Europe. Sophisticated and chic, it's a really a new experience for us provincials. Synonyms bumpkin, country bumpkin, country cousin, rustic, yokel, village idiot, peasant, churl, lout, boor, oaf, clown, barbarian, yahoo 3Christian Church The head or chief of a province or of a religious order in a province. 〔基督教〕（管辖教省的）大主教（或都主教） Example sentencesExamples As provincial of his order, he addressed temperance meetings throughout Ireland. In 1971 Fr. Vincent was asked by his provincial to go to the diocese of Kumasi in Ghana, where he spent most of his remaining years. It does say that he was upset with the poor catechetical materials used in parishes in Australia and that his provincial reprimanded him for preaching on hell. By 1923, the Capuchin provincial asked Solanus to keep a notebook of special cases and reported healings related to his consultations. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin provincialis ‘belonging to a province’ (see province).
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