different between provincial vs shallow
provincial
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)
- Of or pertaining to a province.
- Constituting a province.
- 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.
- 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson
- 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.
- 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody
- Narrow; illiberal.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
- Limited in outlook; narrow.
Synonyms
- rural
Derived terms
- provincially
Translations
Noun
provincial (plural provincials)
- 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:
- The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:
- A country bumpkin.
Translations
Catalan
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
provincial (masculine and feminine plural provincials)
- provincial
French
Etymology
From Latin provincialis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.v??.sjal/
Adjective
provincial (feminine singular provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)
- provincial
Derived terms
- provincialement
- provincialisme
Noun
provincial m (plural provinciaux)
- 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)
- provincial
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin provincialis
Noun
provincial m (plural provinciali)
- provincial
Declension
Related terms
- provincialism
- provincie
Spanish
Adjective
provincial (plural provinciales)
- provincial
Derived terms
- audiencia provincial
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shallow
English
Etymology
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English s?eald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh?- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??al??/
- (US) IPA(key): /??æl.o?/
- Rhymes: -æl??
- Hyphenation: shal?low
Adjective
shallow (comparative shallower, superlative shallowest)
- Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- This crater is relatively shallow.
- Saute the onions in a shallow pan.
- Extending not far downward.
- The water is shallow here.
- Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
- Lacking interest or substance.
- The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
- Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- shallow learning
- The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
- (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
- (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
Antonyms
- deep
Derived terms
- given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
Translations
Noun
shallow (plural shallows)
- A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
- The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
- dashed on the shallows of the moving sand
- A fish, the rudd.
- (historical) A costermonger's barrow.
- 1871, Belgravia (volume 14, page 213)
- You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.
- 1871, Belgravia (volume 14, page 213)
Usage notes
- Usually used in the plural form.
Translations
See also
- shoal
- sandbar
- sandbank
Verb
shallow (third-person singular simple present shallows, present participle shallowing, simple past and past participle shallowed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become less deep.
References
Anagrams
- hallows
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