pawn vs provincial

pawn

noun
  • An instance of pawning something. 

  • A gallery. 

  • Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end. 

  • A pawnshop; pawnbroker. 

  • The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge. 

  • The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant. 

verb
  • To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop. 

  • To pledge; to stake or wager. 

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. 

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