provincial

nouns

(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"
provincial
domain category
the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy
Church of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
is a type of (narrower)
a worker who holds or is invested with an office
functionary, official
a country person
bucolic, peasant, provincial

adjectives

of or associated with a province
"provincial government"
provincial
is derived from
province
pertains to
province
characteristic of the provinces or their people
"deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
provincial
is derived from
province
antonym
cosmopolitan
is similar to
awkwardly simple and provincial
"bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated
is similar to
strong and healthy but not sophisticated
corn-fed
is similar to
narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
"little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"
insular, parochial
is similar to
small and remote and insignificant
"a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky
is similar to
not given to travel
"a stay-at-home friend"
stay-at-home