provincial

Etymology

From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”).

adj

1. Of or pertaining to a province.
   a provincial government
   a provincial dialect
2. Constituting a province.
3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
   That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling. 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody
5. Narrow; illiberal.
6. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
   a provincial synod
7. 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.
   The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 700
3. (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
4. A country bumpkin.