provincial

«provincial» in Mova's school dictionary: belonging to a province or a region outside the capital city — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective; noun (provincials)

meaning for a pupil

1) Provincial means belonging to a province or a region outside the capital city. tree →

2) Provincial can also mean old-fashioned or narrow-minded, as if from the countryside. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories and lessons, names a local word or local way of speaking that people outside the capital do not use: «a provincial word»; a snobbish name for someone from the country

examples

• The word is provincial and nobody in the city uses it. tree →
• The old schoolmaster called the lad a provincial. tree →
• Our provincial town has one shop and one bus. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «provincial» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.