provincials
- 1Plural of provincial.
The provincials eyed the city's latest fashions with open suspicion.
A crowd of provincials gathered outside the palace gates to glimpse the king.
Note
A regular -s plural that belongs only to the noun; the adjective provincial takes no ending. It can gather very different groups: people from the provinces, country bumpkins, or the monastic superiors who each direct an order's houses in a district. In writing about religious orders, a meeting of provincials is a gathering of officials, not rustics. An obsolete use applied the word to constitutions issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
provincials is a form of provincial
provincial, noun: A person belonging to or coming from a province; someone from outside the capital or major cities. Full entry
- Forms
- provincialprovincials plural
- Spelling
- provincial → provincials: add -s
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