foreign vs provincial

foreign

adj
  • Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion. 

  • Alien; strange. 

  • Relating to a different nation. 

  • Not characteristic of or naturally taken in by an organism or system. 

  • Located outside a country or place, especially one's own. 

  • From a different one of the states of the United States, as of a state of residence or incorporation. 

  • Belonging to a different organization, company etc. 

noun
  • An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits. 

  • A foreigner: a person from another country. 

  • A foreign whip, a car produced abroad. 

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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