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# provincial

«provincial» in Mova's school dictionary: **belonging to a province or a region outside the capital city** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective; noun (provincials)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Provincial means belonging to a province or a region outside the capital city. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/#x1)
- The old schoolmaster called the lad a provincial. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/#x2)
- Our provincial town has one shop and one bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «provincial» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provincial/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.