Provincial

[prə'vɪnʃ(ə)l] or [prə'vɪnʃl]

解释:

(noun.) (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'.

(adj.) characteristic of the provinces or their people; 'deeply provincial and conformist'; 'in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial'; 'narrow provincial attitudes' .

(adj.) of or associated with a province; 'provincial government' .

达伦编辑--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

(a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.

(n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

(n.) 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.

录入:罗莎莉

同义词及近义词:

a. [1]. Of a province, of provinces.[2]. Rude, unpolished, unrefined, rustic, countrified.

安妮编辑

同义词及反义词:

SYN:Appendant, annexed, outlying, rural, countrified, rustic, bucolic

ANT:Central, metropolitan, modish, fashionable, courtly

编辑:维尔玛

解释:

adj. pertaining to Provence or Proven鏰l.—Provincial rose the cabbage-rose—from Provins-rose Provins in Seine-et-Marne being famous for its roses: (Shak.) a rosette formerly worn on the shoe.

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校对:雷明顿

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