alien vs provincial

alien

noun
  • A foreigner residing in a country. 

  • Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin. 

  • A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. 

  • One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged. 

adj
  • Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign. 

  • Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed. 

  • Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature. 

verb
  • To estrange; to alienate. 

  • To transfer the ownership of something. 

provincial

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. 

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

  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • Constituting a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to 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. 

How often have the words alien and provincial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )