Provincial - English meaning

noun

A part of a river not reached by the current, where the water is stagnant.

Usage examples:

The eels inhabit backwaters

noun

A place that does not seem to know much about the world and its ways

Usage examples:

Miami transformed from a cultural backwater to a culinary trendsetter.

plural noun

Remote uncleared forest land.

Usage examples:

Backwoods homesteads

plural noun

A place that is off by itself, not near to transportation or a larger town

Usage examples:

I grew up in the backwoods of north carolina.

noun

(in ancient times) a member of a people not belonging to one of the great civilizations (greek, roman, christian).

Usage examples:

The city was besieged by the barbarians

adjective

Relating to ancient barbarians.

Usage examples:

Barbarian invasions

noun

A rough and bad-mannered person.

Usage examples:

At last the big obnoxious boor had been dealt a stunning blow for his uncouth and belligerent manner

noun

A rude and mean-spirited person.

Usage examples:

This trio are used whenever some churl wants to have a pop at progressive rock

noun

A lump of earth or clay.

Usage examples:

Frost is essential for breaking up clods into manageable sizes

noun

A large, heavy shoe.

Usage examples:

Size-fourteen clodhoppers

noun

A person who moves in an awkward way

Usage examples:

Look where you're going, you great clodhopper., you're not coming in the house in those great clodh…

noun

A comic entertainer, especially one in a circus, wearing a traditional costume and exaggerated make-up.

Usage examples:

A circus clown

verb

Behave in a comical or playful way.

Usage examples:

Harvey clowned around pretending to be a dog

noun

An entertainer who wears silly clothes and makes people laugh by performing tricks without speech

Usage examples:

The people running this school are a bunch of clowns., stop clowning around and get serious!

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a colony or colonies.

Usage examples:

British colonial rule

noun

A native or inhabitant of a colony.

Usage examples:

A rebellion by dutch-speaking colonials

adjective

Relating to a body of people who settle far from home

noun

A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.

Usage examples:

The country's increasingly precarious economic position

noun

An area of land that forms an independent political unit with its own government; a nation considered esp. as a place

Usage examples:

Cuba is my native country, but i now live in florida., i’m spending next weekend in the country wit…

noun

A territorial division of some countries, forming the chief unit of local administration.

Usage examples:

One of the most attractive towns in the county

noun

The largest political division of most states in the us

Usage examples:

Texas is divided into 254 counties.

noun

An area of a country or city, especially one characterized by a particular feature or activity.

Usage examples:

A coal-mining district

verb

Divide into areas.

Usage examples:

The committee districted the city into blocks

noun

An area of a country, state, or city that has been given fixed borders for official purposes, or one having a particular feature that makes it different from surrounding areas

Usage examples:

The theater district in new york is in midtown manhattan.

adjective

Of or found in fresh water; not of the sea.

Usage examples:

Freshwater and marine fish

noun

Naturally occurring water that is not salty, and is suitable for consumption if clean or processed.

Usage examples:

The state currently does not have the funds needed to transform seawater into fresh water

noun

A body or watercourse of inland fresh water.

Usage examples:

A myriad of problems face our forests, freshwaters, and oceans

noun

Grass seed obtained from hay.

Usage examples:

I had hayseed in my hair, and i think rock had a little in his hair, too.

noun

A person who lives in the country, regarded as being unintelligent or parochial.

Usage examples:

She puts on a hick accent

noun

An unsophisticated country person, as associated originally with the remote regions of the appalachians.

Usage examples:

When we want to go to appalachia and take photos of the hillbillies, we don't hire hollywood actors…

noun

A person from a rural area who is not familiar with modern ideas and popular culture, esp. someone who lives in the mountains or far from cities or towns in the southeastern us

adjective

Ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience.

Usage examples:

A stubbornly insular farming people

adjective

Restricted in size, amount, or extent; few, small, or short.

Usage examples:

A limited number of places are available

verb

Set or serve as a limit to.

Usage examples:

Try to limit the amount you drink

adjective

Limited also means kept within a particular size, range, time, or group

Usage examples:

The advanced course is limited to those who have already taken the introductory course.

adjective

Relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood.

Usage examples:

Researching local history

noun

An inhabitant of a particular area or neighbourhood.

Usage examples:

The street was full of locals and tourists

adjective

From, existing in, or serving a particular place or small area

Usage examples:

The local population, the local newspaper, local phone calls, local government, a local anesthetic,…

noun

An uncouth and aggressive man or boy.

Usage examples:

He ended up brawling with a lout outside a curry house

noun

A rude, stupid, or awkward man

Usage examples:

He’s such a lout.

adjective

Unwilling to accept or consider other people's different ideas and behavior

adjective

Not located in or near a large city, or related to people who do not live in or near a large city

Usage examples:

Most of the voters who support the proposal live in non-metropolitan communities., it seemed that m…

adjective

Not in, relating to, or typical of a city or town

Usage examples:

The temperatures in non-urban areas tend to be a couple of degrees lower than in the big cities., v…

noun

A man who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent.

Usage examples:

They are just big, clumsy oafs

noun

A big, stupid, awkward person, esp. a man

noun

A rough, uncultivated australian man.

Usage examples:

The cop was a big beefy ocker

noun

An australian who is not well educated and does not behave in a polite way

noun

A race or competition that only one of the competitors has a real chance of winning

Usage examples:

This election has been a one-horse race right from the start.

adjective

Situated far from a centre; remote.

Usage examples:

An outlying village

adjective

Away from the center or main area

Usage examples:

Many of the students come from outlying areas.

adjective

Relating to a church parish.

Usage examples:

The parochial church council

adjective

Relating to a parish (= an area that has its own church or priest)

Usage examples:

Parochial boundaries

adjective

Showing interest only in a narrow range of matters, especially those that directly affect yourself, your town, or your country

Usage examples:

A parochial view/opinion, although it's just a local paper, it somehow manages not to be too paroch…

noun

A poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).

Usage examples:

Peasants left the farms to work in industry

noun

A member of a low social class of farm workers and owners of small farms

noun

A silly or stupid person

Usage examples:

What did you do that for, you plonker?

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a region.

Usage examples:

Regional and local needs

noun

A stamp, newspaper, or other thing produced or used in a particular region.

Usage examples:

Findlay is more interested in local weekly papers than prestigious regionals such as the post.

adjective

Relating to or coming from a particular part of a country or a particular part of the world

Usage examples:

A regional director/manager, regional demand/distribution, a regional economy/market, national adve…

noun

A country bumpkin.

Usage examples:

Quintessentially rube names

adjective

In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.

Usage examples:

Remote rural areas

adjective

In, of, or like the country (= land not in cities)

Usage examples:

She grew up in rural utah.

adjective

In or from the countryside

Usage examples:

The rural economy, the difficulties facing rural communities today are very real., rural areas., he…

adjective

Relating to the countryside; rural.

Usage examples:

Sonntag occasionally populated his landscapes with a lone land hunter, usually near his rustic log …

noun

An unsophisticated country person.

Usage examples:

They paused to watch the rustics dance and carouse

adjective

Typical of the country (= land not in cities), esp. because of being attractively simple

Usage examples:

We stayed in rustic cabins, with no electricity.

noun

A person, usually a man, who is not very intelligent or attractive, or who has nothing special about him

Usage examples:

She plays a bored texas checkout girl cheating on her schlub of a husband.

adjective

Relating to a distinct part or area.

Usage examples:

The task of integrating different sectoral interests

adjective

Relating to a sector of the economy

Usage examples:

Most sectoral policies in the country relate to the wood and fish industries.

adjective

Of or from a small town, and sometimes having a simple or limited quality

Usage examples:

A small-town girl, small-town politics

noun

The particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time.

Usage examples:

The state of the company's finances

verb

Express something definitely or clearly in speech or writing.

Usage examples:

The report stated that more than 51 per cent of voters failed to participate

noun

A condition or way of being

Usage examples:

The stable was preserved in its original state., your room is in a terrible state., it's a sad stat…

adjective

Of or characteristic of a suburb.

Usage examples:

Suburban life

adjective

Relating to a suburb

Usage examples:

Suburban schools/housing, they live in suburban washington., suburban life

adjective

Relating to the ownership of an area of land or sea.

Usage examples:

Territorial disputes

noun

(in the uk) a member of the territorial army.

Usage examples:

The engineer officer summoned all available territorials (a reserve force) to assist in repairs.

adjective

Relating to territory or a particular territory

Usage examples:

He served as territorial governor., some animals are territorial (= they defend particular areas ag…

adjective

Lacking refined worldly knowledge or tastes.

Usage examples:

An unsophisticated young man

adjective

Not complicated, not educated, or without a good understanding of culture

Usage examples:

He’s an unsophisticated man, but he has been very successful in business.

noun

A rude, noisy, or violent person.

Usage examples:

The young people, they have no religion, and the yahoos are coming home to roost.

exclamation

Expressing great joy or excitement.

Usage examples:

Yahoo—my plan worked!

noun

A rude, loud, unpleasant person, especially one who has little education

Usage examples:

"yahoo! i passed!" he shouted.

noun

A rude, noisy, and aggressive young person.

Usage examples:

They urged police to crack down on racist yobs before youths took the law into their own hands.

noun

A young man who behaves in a very rude, offensive, and sometimes violent way

Usage examples:

A gang of loud-mouthed yobs

noun

Another term for yob.

noun

A young man who behaves in a very rude, offensive, and sometimes violent way

Usage examples:

A gang of loud-mouthed yobs

noun

An uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside.

Usage examples:

She confirmed my suspicions of country folk being idiotic yokels as correct.

noun

A person who lives in an area far from cities, is not familiar with city ways, and is therefore considered slightly stupid

adjective

Characterized by or relating to a zone or zones.

Usage examples:

Zonal maps

adjective

Relating to or arranged in zones

Usage examples:

Zonal boundaries/divisions