'Provincial' has several meanings and may refer to:
★
Provincial examinations: Bi-annual province-wide examinations for asses between the size of 10m to 12m in most of the Canadian provinces.
★ Anything related to a
province, a formal geographical division;
★ Anything related to "the provinces", the parts of a country outside of its capital or largest cities (e.g. all parts of
England other than
London);
★ A person who is an inhabitant of a province or "the provinces" as defined above;
★ Figurative: someone who has a limited, restricted, or non-sophisticated mentality or habits, stereotypical of an inhabitant of "the provinces". See:
parochialism
★ A '
provincial superior' of a
religious order.