local vs provincial

local

adj
  • From or in a nearby location. 

  • Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global 

  • Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. 

  • Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline. 

  • Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program. 

  • Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole. 

  • Descended from an indigenous population. 

adv
  • In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc. 

noun
  • A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter. 

  • One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. 

  • An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors. 

  • A person who lives near a given place. 

  • A locally scoped identifier. 

  • An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. 

  • A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. 

provincial

adj
  • Of or pertaining to a province. 

  • Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude 

  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • Constituting a province. 

  • Limited in outlook; narrow. 

  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. 

noun
  • A country bumpkin. 

  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 

  • 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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