PROVINCIAL

'Provincial' has several meanings and may refer to:

★ Provincial examinations: Bi-annual province-wide examinations for asses between the size of 10m to 12m in most of the Canadian provinces.

★ Anything related to a province, a formal geographical division;

★ Anything related to "the provinces", the parts of a country outside of its capital or largest cities (e.g. all parts of England other than London);

★ A person who is an inhabitant of a province or "the provinces" as defined above;

★ Figurative: someone who has a limited, restricted, or non-sophisticated mentality or habits, stereotypical of an inhabitant of "the provinces". See: parochialism

★ A 'provincial superior' of a religious order.