Provincial > define

(n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
(a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
(a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
(n.) 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.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Roman Catholic Church. ( an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order)
- usage: "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
A country person.
- synonyms: peasant, bucolic

Of or associated with a province.
- usage: "provincial government"
Characteristic of the provinces or their people.
- usage: "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"