亚洲网紅露点

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provincial

[ pruh-vin-shuhl ]

adjective

  1. belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local:

    the provincial newspaper.

  2. of or relating to the provinces:

    provincial customs; provincial dress.

  3. having or showing the manners, viewpoints, etc., considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; parochial:

    a provincial point of view.

    Synonyms: ,

  4. (often initial capital letter) Fine Arts. noting or pertaining to the styles of architecture, furniture, etc., found in the provinces, especially when imitating styles currently or formerly in fashion in or around the capital:

    Italian Provincial.

  5. History/Historical. of or relating to any of the American provinces of Great Britain.


noun

  1. a person who lives in or comes from the provinces.
  2. a person who lacks urban sophistication or broad-mindedness.
  3. Ecclesiastical.
    1. the head of an ecclesiastical province.
    2. a member of a religious order presiding over the order in a given district or province.

provincial

/ pr蓹藞v瑟n蕛蓹l; pr蓹藢v瑟n蕛瑟藞忙l瑟t瑟 /

adjective

  1. of or connected with a province
  2. characteristic of or connected with the provinces; local
  3. having attitudes and opinions supposedly common to people living in the provinces; rustic or unsophisticated; limited
  4. denoting a football team representing a province, one of the historical administrative areas of New Zealand
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a person lacking the sophistications of city life; rustic or narrow-minded individual
  2. a person coming from or resident in a province or the provinces
  3. the head of an ecclesiastical province
  4. the head of a major territorial subdivision of a religious order
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • provinciality, noun
  • 辫谤辞藞惫颈苍肠颈补濒濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辫谤辞路惫颈苍顎僣颈补濒路濒测 adverb
  • 颈苍顎卼别谤路辫谤辞路惫颈苍顎僣颈补濒 adjective
  • 苍辞苍顎卲谤辞路惫颈苍顎僣颈补濒 adjective
  • non顎叡璋锹繁咕辈灶僣颈补濒路濒测 adverb
  • 辩耻补顎却颈-辫谤辞路惫颈苍顎僣颈补濒 adjective
  • qua顎卻i-辫谤辞路惫颈苍顎僣颈补濒路濒测 adverb
  • 蝉别尘顎卛路辫谤辞路惫颈苍顎僣颈补濒 adjective
  • sem顎卛路辫谤辞路惫颈苍顎僣颈补濒路濒测 adverb
  • 蝉耻产顎卲谤辞路惫颈苍顎僣颈补濒 adjective noun
  • 耻苍顎卲谤辞路惫颈苍顎僣颈补濒 adjective
  • un顎叡璋锹繁咕辈灶僣颈补濒路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of provincial1

First recorded in 1300鈥50; Middle English (noun and adjective), from Latin 辫谤艒惫颈苍肠颈腻濒颈蝉, from 辫谤艒惫颈苍肠颈(补) province + -腻濒颈蝉 -al 1
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The federal and provincial Conservative parties are legally different entities, though they belong to the same ideological tent, and Ford is leader of Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party.

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Not long after his ordination, he was named the Jesuit provincial for Argentina, which put him in charge of the order鈥檚 activities throughout the country.

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Ordained a decade later, he won swift promotion, becoming provincial superior for Argentina in 1973.

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A criminal investigation has been launched by the provincial authorities.

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She has also refused to use oil as a bargaining chip to fight back against US tariffs - breaking away from the position held by most other provincial leaders.

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