probinsiyano : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

probinsiyano [pru.bin.si.yá.nu.] :

provincial (n.) [tawo]
[ Etymology: Spanish: provinciano: provincial ]

Derivatives of probinsiyano

Glosses:

provincial
n. (person)	1. provincial	(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"
	~ church of rome, roman catholic church, roman church, western church, roman catholic	the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy.
	~ functionary, official	a worker who holds or is invested with an office.
n. (person)	2. bucolic, peasant, provincial	a country person.
	~ cottar, cotter	a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands.
	~ moujik, mujik, muzhik, muzjik	a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917).
	~ rustic	an unsophisticated country person.
adj. (pertain)	3. provincial	of or associated with a province.; "provincial government"
adj.	4. provincial	characteristic of the provinces or their people.; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"
	~ bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated	awkwardly simple and provincial.; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
	~ corn-fed	strong and healthy but not sophisticated.
	~ parochial, insular	narrowly restricted in outlook or scope.; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"
	~ jerkwater, one-horse, pokey, poky	small and remote and insignificant.; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"
	~ stay-at-home	not given to travel.; "a stay-at-home friend"