The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, a. [L. provincialis: cf. F.
   provincial. See Province, and cf. Provencal.]
   1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as,
      a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
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   2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province;
      characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not
      cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence,
      narrow; illiberal. "Provincial airs and graces."
      --Macaulay.
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   3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the
      jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a
      provincial synod. --Ayliffe.
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   4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.]
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            With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Provincial \Pro*vin"cial\, n.
   1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
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   2. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

provincial
    adj 1: of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
    2: characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply
       provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I
       felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
       [ant: cosmopolitan]
    n 1: (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"
    2: a country person [syn: peasant, provincial, bucolic]