Provincial

Pro`vin´cial

a.	1.	Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
	2.	Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
	3.	Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
	4.	Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. - Shak.
n.	1.	A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
	2.	(R. C. Ch.) 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.

Noun	1.	provincial - (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"
	2.	provincial - a country person Synonyms: bucolic, peasant
Adj.	1.	provincial - of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
	2.	provincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" Antonyms: cosmopolitan - composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"