provincial vs tribe

provincial

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

  • A country bumpkin. 

  • 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. 

tribe

noun
  • A tribal nation or people. 

  • An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may be contained within a nation). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity. 

  • A hierarchal rank between family and genus. 

  • A socially cohesive group of people within a society 

  • A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line. 

  • The collective noun for various animals. 

  • A group of apes who live and work together. 

  • A nation or people in an area considered culturally primitive, such as Africa, Australia or Native America. 

verb
  • To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize. 

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