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乡下人,地方人民省的,地方的,偏狭的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, a. [L. provincialis: cf. F.
   provincial. See {Province}, and cf. {Provencal}.]
   1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as,
      a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

   2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province;
      characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not
      cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence,
      narrow; illiberal. ``Provincial airs and graces.''
      --Macaulay.

   3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the
      jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a
      provincial synod. --Ayliffe.

   4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.]

            With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. --Shak.

Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, n.
   1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

   2. (R. C. Ch.) 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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

provincial
     adj 1: of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
     2: characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply
        provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company
        I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial
        attitudes" [ant: {cosmopolitan}]

provincial
     n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an
          ecclesiastical province acting under the superior
          general of a religious order; "the general of the
          Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
     2: a country person [syn: {peasant}, {bucolic}]