international vs provincial

international

adj
  • between or among nations 

  • Independent of national boundaries; common to all people. 

  • Foreign; of another nation. 

  • common to, or affecting, two or more nations. 

  • serving two or more nations 

  • Of or concerning the association called the International. 

  • participated in by two or more nations 

noun
  • Someone who has represented their country in a particular sport. 

  • The United team includes five England internationals. 

  • A transnational organization of political parties of similar ideology. 

  • A game or contest between two or more nations. 

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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