different between provincial vs conservative

English

Etymology

From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???v?n(t)??l/, /p???v?n(t)??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???v?n(t)??l/, /p???v?n(t)??l/

Adjective

provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

1. Of or pertaining to a province.

2. Constituting a province.
3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
   • 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson

     […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
   • 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody

     That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.

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

7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

Synonyms

• rural

Derived terms

• provincially

Translations

Noun

provincial (plural provincials)

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. (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.

3. A country bumpkin.

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

provincial (masculine and feminine plural provincials)

1. provincial

French

Etymology

From Latin provincialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.v??.sjal/

Adjective

provincial (feminine singular provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialement
• provincialisme

Noun

provincial m (plural provinciaux)

1. people from the provinces/regions

Further reading

• “provincial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Adjective

provincial (plural provinciais, comparable)

1. provincial

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin provincialis

Noun

provincial m (plural provinciali)

1. provincial

Declension

Related terms

• provincialism
• provincie

Spanish

Adjective

provincial (plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• audiencia provincial

English

Etymology

From Middle French conservatif, from Latin c?nserv? (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve +? -ative.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?s?v?t?v/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?s??v?t?v/
• Hyphenation: con?ser?va?tive

Noun

conservative (plural conservatives)

1. A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
   1. (politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.
   2. (politics) A political conservative.
   3. (US, economics) A fiscal conservative.
   4. (US, social sciences) A social conservative.

   Synonyms: traditionalist, right-winger, reactionary

   Hyponym: small-c conservative

   Coordinate terms: moderate, liberal, progressive, libertarian, centrist

Translations

Adjective

conservative (comparative more conservative, superlative most conservative)

1. Cautious.
2. Tending to resist change or innovation.

3. Based on pessimistic assumptions.

4. (US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
5. (Britain, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
   • 1830, Quarterly Rev.

     We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.

6. (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
7. Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
8. (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
9. (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
10. (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
    • 2000, G. Puddu et al., "Achilles Tendon Injuries" in The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine, ?ISBN, page 200:

      Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:conservative.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• conservative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• conservative at OneLook Dictionary Search
• conservative in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• conservative in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• conversative

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s??.va.tiv/
• Homophone: conservatives

Adjective

conservative

1. feminine singular of conservatif

Interlingua

Adjective

conservative (comparative plus conservative, superlative le plus conservative)

1. conservative

Italian

Adjective

conservative

1. feminine plural of conservativo

Anagrams

• conservatevi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon.ser.u?a??ti?.u?e/, [kõ?s??ru?ä??t?i?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.ser.va?ti.ve/, [k?ns?rv??t?i?v?]

Adjective

c?nserv?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of c?nserv?t?vus

References

• conservative in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)