noun

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

2. 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.

3. A country bumpkin.

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a province.

   “a provincial dialect”

2. Constituting a province.

3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.

Synonyms: rural