provincial definition

1. (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
• examples: the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials
2. of or associated with a province
• examples: provincial government
3. characteristic of the provinces or their people
• examples: deeply provincial and conformist
• examples: in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial
• examples: narrow provincial attitudes