how to pronounce provincial

/pɹəˈvɪn.ʃəl/

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provincial is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of provincial in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… called aquanum in provincial italy he …”

meaning of provincial

Provincial means relating to a region or area smaller than a country.

provincial frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word provincial occurs in english on average 16.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics provincial can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that provincial can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;