Provincial

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Provincial has several meanings and may refer to:

  • Provincial examinations: Bi-annual province-wide examinations for students between the grades of 10 to 12 in the province of British Columbia
  • Anything related to a province, a formal geographical division;
  • 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
  • The Provincial sector of British Rail, which was later renamed Regional Railways
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