Farmer vs Provincial - What's the difference?
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A person who works the land or who keeps livestock, especially on a farm.
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Agent noun]] of farm; someone or something that [[farm#verb, farms.
(historical) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
(historical, mining) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
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.
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Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
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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.
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limited in outlook; narrow
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:
A country bumpkin.
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Farmer is a related term of provincial.
As nouns the difference between farmer and provincial
is that farmer is while provincial is a person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.As an adjective provincial is
of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.farmer
English
(wikipedia farmer)Noun
(en noun)citation
- a farmer of the revenues
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* English agent nouns ----provincial
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- Provincial airs and graces.
- With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
Noun
(en noun)- The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
