PROVINCIAL
Scrabble letter values: P3R1O1V4I1N1C3I1A1L1 = 17
Definition
- adjective of or associated with a province.
- adjective characteristic of the provinces or their people.
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order.
- noun a country person. — synonyms: peasant, bucolic
Examples
- “provincial government”
- “deeply provincial and conformist”
- “in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial”