Provincial vs Capitol - What's the difference?
provincial | capitol |
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.
* 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.
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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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A building or complex of buildings in which any legislature meets.
* 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", , page 1,
As an adjective 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.As a proper noun capitol is
temple of jupiter in rome.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.
capitol
English
Alternative forms
* Capitol (usually capitalized)Noun
(en noun)- The capitol building is located smack-dab in the middle of the state capital.
- The centre of attraction was the City Hall. Two thousand flags and more ...; 2,000 electric lights... combined to make the civic capitol gorgeous... .