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Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant ,and one needs to have a kind of comparative way of thinking in order to arrive at a judgment that is not completely provincial, that doesn't end up ratifying one's own national perspective and hence, one's own national agendas.
Judith Butler

Meaning of "provincial" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROVINCIAL

provincial  [prəˈvɪnʃəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROVINCIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Provincial can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PROVINCIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of provincial in the English dictionary

The first definition of provincial in the dictionary is of or connected with a province. Other definition of provincial is characteristic of or connected with the provinces; local. Provincial is also having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to people living in the provinces; rustic or unsophisticated; limited.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROVINCIAL


comprovincial
ˌkɒmprəˈvɪnʃəl
confidential
ˌkɒnfɪˈdɛnʃəl
consequential
ˌkɒnsɪˈkwɛnʃəl
credential
krɪˈdɛnʃəl
differential
ˌdɪfəˈrɛnʃəl
essential
ɪˈsɛnʃəl
existential
ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəl
experiential
ɪkˌspɪərɪˈɛnʃəl
exponential
ˌɛkspəʊˈnɛnʃəl
financial
fɪˈnænʃəl
influential
ˌɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl
interprovincial
ˌɪntəprəˈvɪnʃəl
potential
pəˈtɛnʃəl
preferential
ˌprɛfəˈrɛnʃəl
presidential
ˌprezɪˈdenʃəl
prudential
pruːˈdɛnʃəl
quintessential
ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəl
residential
ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl
sequential
sɪˈkwɛnʃəl
substantial
səbˈstænʃəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROVINCIAL

providential
providentially
providently
provider
providing
province
provinces
Provincetown
provincewide
Provincial Council
provincial police
provincialise
provincialism
provincialist
provinciality
provincialize
provincially
provine
proving
proving ground

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROVINCIAL

artificial
beneficial
commercial
crucial
especial
facial
internuncial
interracial
judicial
noncommercial
nonfinancial
official
quincuncial
racial
semuncial
social
special
superficial
uncial
unofficial

Synonyms and antonyms of provincial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROVINCIAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «provincial» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of provincial

Translation of «provincial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROVINCIAL

Find out the translation of provincial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of provincial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «provincial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

省的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

provincial
570 millions of speakers

English

provincial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रांतीय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المحافظات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

провинциального
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

provinciano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রাদেশিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

provincial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wilayah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Provinz-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

地方の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지방의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Provinsi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tỉnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாகாண
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रांतिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

il
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

provinciale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prowincjonalny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

провінційного
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

provincial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επαρχιακό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

provinsiale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

provinsiella
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

provinsielle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of provincial

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROVINCIAL»

The term «provincial» is very widely used and occupies the 10.174 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROVINCIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «provincial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «provincial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about provincial

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10 QUOTES WITH «PROVINCIAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word provincial.
1
Aravind Adiga
India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.
2
Aravind Adiga
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.
3
Willard Boyle
We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.
4
Julie Burchill
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.
5
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.
6
Judith Butler
Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant ,and one needs to have a kind of comparative way of thinking in order to arrive at a judgment that is not completely provincial, that doesn't end up ratifying one's own national perspective and hence, one's own national agendas.
7
Kim Campbell
It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.
8
Paul Cellucci
We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.
9
Stompin' Tom Connors
On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.
10
George Cukor
You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROVINCIAL»

Discover the use of provincial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to provincial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
French Provincial Cooking
"First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1960"--T.p. verso.
Elizabeth David, 1999
2
Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem ...
This book, published in celebration of the site's 50th anniversary, is the first scientific overview of the park, its flora and fauna, its major fossil discoveries, and its ecology.
Philip J. Currie, Eva Bundgaard Koppelhus, 2005
3
Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul
Woolf repudiates traditional theories of `Romanization' and argues that each region remained unique. His study discusses the nature of Roman imperialism and notions of civilisation and the culture and society of pre-Roman Gaul.
Greg Woolf, 2000
4
Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire
"As he illuminates the relationship between the imperial government and the empire's provinces, Ando deepens our understanding of one of the most striking phenomena in the history of government."--BOOK JACKET.
Clifford Ando, 2000
5
Authority in Byzantine Provincial Society, 950-1100
This 2004 book examines in detail the mechanisms provincial households used to acquire and dispute authority.
Leonora Neville, 2004
6
Chinese Provincial Leaders: Economic Performance and ...
Provides a look at how real organizations are formulating and implementing strategic change. This book is filled with vignettes, quotes, and real-world examples that illustrate the faster, more adaptive strategic planning processes.
Alan M. Glassman, Deone Zell, Shari Duron, 2005
7
Roman provincial coinage
This book embodies a new conception of Roman coinage.
Andrew Burnett, Michel Amandry, Pere Pau Ripollés Alegre, 2003
8
Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the ...
Vol. 10 includes "Minutes of the Council of Safety from June 30th, 1775, to November 12th, 1776" (p. [277]-784)
Pennsylvania. Provincial Council, Samuel Hazard, 1852
9
State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, ...
An interpretation of relations between the central Ottoman Empire and provincial Iraqi society in the early modern period.
Dina Rizk Khoury, 2002
10
National Provincial
When she steps off the London train at Leeds (known in the novel as Aire) Mary Welburn is returning to the world of her childhood.
Lettice Cooper, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROVINCIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term provincial is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Internet camera hacked in southwestern Ont. home, provincial police …
It happened a little after nine in the evening on July 7 to a young family in Middlesex Centre, a rural area north of London, Ont., according to Ontario Provincial ... «The Province, Jul 15»
2
Ottawa won't help Ontario establish provincial pension plan
Ottawa is putting Queen's Park on notice that it will not help set up a provincial pension plan. Finance Minister Joe Oliver wrote to his provincial counterpart on ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
3
Special Olympics NS desperate for volunteers for Provincial Games
The provincial games of the Special Olympics will be happening at Dalhousie and St. Mary's Universities from July 10-12. Volunteers are also needed for the ... «Globalnews.ca, Jun 15»
4
New provincial committee elected for WC ANC
This after Marius Fransman was early this morning confirmed to serve for a second term as the provincial chairperson after he was elected unopposed for the ... «News24, Jun 15»
5
Provincial, territorial ministers agree to knock down trade barriers
Ministers responsible for internal trade from every province and territory across Canada have agreed to move quickly to remove internal trade barriers in Canada ... «CBC.ca, Jun 15»
6
Provincial health ministers call for national pharmacare program
Canada should have a national pharmacare program to help people pay for prescription drugs, several provincial and territorial health ministers said on Monday ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
7
Ontario provincial elections to move to spring as Liberals promise to …
Ontario will get 15 more MPPs, spring elections and new rules for third-party ads before the 2018 election. The province will align most of its ridings with the new ... «National Post, Jun 15»
8
Taxes, fees up in provincial budget
After a decade of the province's economic engine roaring up the hill of progress, the motor sprung an oil leak and stalled, and the hill has become a slippery ... «The Telegram, Apr 15»
9
Ontario approves bill to create provincial pension plan starting in 2017
Ontario passed legislation Wednesday to create a provincial pension plan for more than three million people who do not have a workplace pension, despite ... «CBC.ca, Apr 15»
10
Landslide in remote Afghanistan province kills at least 52: official
KABUL, Afghanistan — A massive landslide in a remote province in northeastern Afghanistan killed at least 52 people on Tuesday, a provincial official said. «New York Daily News, Apr 15»

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