provincial vs school

provincial

noun
  • 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. 

  • A country bumpkin. 

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

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. 

school

noun
  • The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought. 

  • The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution. 

  • An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc. 

  • The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age. 

  • A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales. 

  • An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university). 

  • An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution. 

  • At Eton College, a period or session of teaching. 

  • The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held. 

  • A multitude. 

  • An art movement, a community of artists. 

  • Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area. 

verb
  • To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school). 

  • To control, or compose, one’s expression. 

  • To form into, or travel in, a school. 

  • To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson. 

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