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Provincially

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Adverb

1. provincially

by the province; through the province

Example Sentences:
'provincially controlled'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Provincially

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adjective
1. 
of or connected with a province
2. 
characteristic of or connected with the provinces; local
3. 
having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to people living in the provinces; rustic or unsophisticated; limited
4. New Zealand
denoting a football team representing a province, one of the historical administrative areas of New Zealand
noun
5. 
a person lacking the sophistications of city life; rustic or narrow-minded individual
6. 
a person coming from or resident in a province or the provinces
7. 
the head of an ecclesiastical province
8. 
the head of a major territorial subdivision of a religious order

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Provincially

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adjective
1. 
of or belonging to a province
2. 
having the ways, speech, attitudes, etc. of a certain province
3. 
of or like that of rural provinces; countrified; rustic
4. 
designating or of a style, esp. of 18th-cent. European furniture, that was characteristic of the provinces and was a simpler and plainer copy of the style characteristic of the capital and cultural centers
see also French Provincial
5. 
narrow; limited; unsophisticated
a provincial outlook
noun
6. 
a native of a province
7. 
a provincial person; esp., a narrow-minded or unsophisticated person

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Provincially

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adj.
1. Of or relating to a province.
2. Of or characteristic of people from the provinces; not fashionable or sophisticated: "Well-educated professional women ... made me feel uncomfortably provincial" (J.R. Salamanca).
3. Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.
n.
1. A native or inhabitant of the provinces.
2. A person who has provincial ideas or habits.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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