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province
  1. A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country. [from 14th c.]
  2. An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China. [from 14th c.]
  3. (Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor. [from 14th c.]
  4. (Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses. [from 14th c.]
  5. (plural) The parts of a country outside its capital city. [from 17th c.]
  6. An area of activity, responsibility; the proper concern of a particular person or concept. [from 17th c.]
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Battambang became a prosperous province in the 1990s, and the city benefited from extensive private investment from nearby Thailand.”
      “In the wild province, vast sweeping moors and bushy dunes are buffeted by Cape Cod's deadly sea, the site of one thousand known shipwrecks.”
      “Mr. Holloway said it was not his province to decide on his own jurisdiction.”
provincial
  1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  2. (Roman Catholicism) 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.
  3. A country bumpkin.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Sophisticated and chic, it's a really a new experience for us provincials.”
      “But then people stopped wearing dunce-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant.”
provincialism
  1. The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
  2. (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The provincialism in the small town was evident in their reluctance to embrace new ideas or cultures.”
      “Linguists studying the diverse dialects of English have identified several forms of provincialism, including the distinct accents and vocabulary found within different regions of the United States.”
      “Conservative reaction, like socialist internationalism, was distinctly un-English in its lack of provincialism.”
provincialist
  1. One who lives in a province; a provincial.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In Bulgaria, Detchko Uzunov might be a provincialist or a parochialist, but he surely was not a regionalist.”
      “A reference to a work of authority on the subject will oblige a provincialist.”
provincialisation
  1. Alternative form of provincialization
provincialization
  1. The process of making something provincial.
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    1. “No doubt, too, Labour concluded that provincialization inhibited its effective involvement in national policy-making.”
provinciality
  1. The quality of being provincial.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “One of the initial consequences of the shrinking of Iapetus was a gradual decline in the provinciality of fossils.”
      “Mainly provinciality is understood as mental characteristic meaning retardation of every sort and kind.”
      “It carries its intelligence lightly, is never overbearing or flashy, and is devoid of obfuscation, provinciality and jargon.”
provincehood
  1. (Canada) The status of being a province.
provinces
  1. plural of province
  2. The part of a country outside of the capital, major cities, etc., and regarded as being rustic or parochial; a hinterland. See provincial.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The legion was later reinforced with legionaries from the Germania provinces.”
      “This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.”
      “Traditionally, provinces and altepetl were governed by hereditary tlatoani.”
provincialisations
  1. plural of provincialisation
provincializations
provincialisms
  1. plural of provincialism
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In a disastrous miscalculation, the producers carefully put back all the lame, dated gags and Manhattan provincialisms that dotted the original production.”
      “Excepting a few provincialisms of slight consequence, you have no marks of the manners which I am habituated to consider as peculiar to your class.”
provincialists
  1. plural of provincialist
provincialities
provincials
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