Cosmopolitan vs. Provincial

Cosmopolitanadjective

all-inclusive; affecting the whole world.

Provincialadjective

Of or pertaining to a province.

‘a provincial government’; ‘a provincial dialect’;

Cosmopolitanadjective

composed of people from all over the world.

Provincialadjective

Constituting a province.

Cosmopolitanadjective

(of a person) at ease in any part of the world.

Provincialadjective

Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.

Cosmopolitanadjective

growing or living in many parts of the world; widely distributed.

Provincialadjective

Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude

Cosmopolitannoun

A cosmopolitan person; a cosmopolite.

Provincialadjective

narrow; illiberal.

Cosmopolitannoun

A cocktail containing vodka, triple sec, lime juice and cranberry juice.

Provincialadjective

Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.

‘a provincial synod’;

Cosmopolitannoun

A butterfly, Vanessa cardui

Provincialadjective

Limited in outlook; narrow.

Cosmopolitannoun

One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.

Provincialnoun

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

Cosmopolitanadjective

Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.

‘In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite.’;

Provincialnoun

(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.

Cosmopolitanadjective

Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.

‘The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan.’;

Provincialnoun

A country bumpkin.

Cosmopolitannoun

a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

Provincialadjective

Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

Cosmopolitanadjective

growing or occurring in many parts of the world;

‘a cosmopolitan herb’; ‘cosmopolitan in distribution’;

Provincialadjective

Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.

Cosmopolitanadjective

composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests;

‘his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds’; ‘the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt’; ‘that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks’;

Provincialadjective

Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.

Cosmopolitanadjective

of worldwide scope or applicability;

‘an issue of cosmopolitan import’; ‘the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time’; ‘universal experience’;

Provincialadjective

Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.

‘With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.’;

Cosmopolitanadjective

including people from many different countries

‘immigration transformed the city into a cosmopolitan metropolis’;

Provincialnoun

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

Cosmopolitanadjective

familiar with and at ease in many different countries and cultures

‘his knowledge of French, Italian, and Spanish made him genuinely cosmopolitan’;

Provincialnoun

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.

Cosmopolitanadjective

having an exciting and glamorous character associated with travel and a mixture of cultures

‘their designs became a byword for cosmopolitan chic’;

Provincialnoun

(Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order;

‘the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials’;

Cosmopolitanadjective

(of a plant or animal) found all over the world.

Provincialnoun

a country person

Cosmopolitannoun

a cosmopolitan person

‘cosmopolitans who spoke both Spanish and English’;

Provincialadjective

of or associated with a province;

‘provincial government’;

Cosmopolitannoun

a plant or animal found all over the world.

Provincialadjective

characteristic of the provinces or their people;

‘deeply provincial and conformist’; ‘in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial’; ‘narrow provincial attitudes’;

Cosmopolitannoun

a cocktail made with Cointreau, lemon vodka, cranberry juice, and lime juice.

Provincialadjective

of or concerning a province of a country or empire

‘provincial elections’;

Provincialadjective

of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded

‘provincial towns’; ‘the whole exhibition struck one as being very provincial’;

Provincialnoun

an inhabitant of a province of a country or empire.

Provincialnoun

(in Canada) sporting contests held between teams representing the country's administrative divisions.

Provincialnoun

an inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded

‘a town populated by money-grubbers, philistines, and self-satisfied provincials’;

Provincialnoun

local newspapers, as contrasted with national ones.

Provincialnoun

the head or chief of a province or of a religious order in a province.