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Colloquial vs Provincial - What's the difference?

colloquial | provincial |

As adjectives the difference between colloquial and provincial

is that colloquial is (linguistics) denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal while provincial is of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

As a noun provincial is

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

colloquial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (linguistics) Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal.
  • Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.

    • Usage notes

    Note that while colloquy and colloquium refer to formal'' conversation, colloquial refers instead specifically to ''informal conversation.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * colloquialism * colloquially * colloquialness * colloquiality

    Related terms

    * colloquium * colloquy * slang

    provincial

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  • * ,
    • Provincial airs and graces.
  • Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
  • * Ayliffe,
  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
  • (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
  • * ,
    • With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
  • limited in outlook; narrow

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  • (Roman Catholicism) 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.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 700:
    • The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
  • A country bumpkin.
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