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# provincial

adjective; noun (provincials)

«provincial» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Provincial means belonging to a province or a region outside the capital city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/#m1)
2. Provincial can also mean old-fashioned or narrow-minded, as if from the countryside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories and lessons, names a local word or local way of speaking that people outside the capital do not use: «a provincial word»; a snobbish name for someone from the country

### Examples

- The word is provincial and nobody in the city uses it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/#x1)
- The old schoolmaster called the lad a provincial. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/#x2)
- Our provincial town has one shop and one bus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «provincial» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«provincial» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/provincial.html) on Mova free.