provincial

adjective6

1. •
   Of or pertaining to a province.

   • More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks. — 2016
2. •
   Constituting a province.
3. •
   Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
4. •
   Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
5. •
   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
6. •
   Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.

   • […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces. — 1856

noun4

1. •
   A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. •
   A country bumpkin.
3. •
   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
4. •
   (no longer used) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.

   • Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]? — 1503

adjective1

1. •
   (no longer used) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.

   • With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. — 1599