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game, line of business or work; walk, walk of life, category, status; area of activity or pursuit, calling, lifework, persuasion; scope, latitude, ambit, span; long suit, mdtier, gift, genius, special genius, endowment.
4. the provinces outlying districts, backwoods, hinterlands, wilds, wilderness, frontier, woods, bush, SI. boondocks, SI. boonies, Australian, outback, parts unknown, no man's land; the country, the countryside, small towns, farm country, exurbia, U.S. Inf. the sticks, U.S. SI. hicksville.
provincial, adj. 1. regional, sectional, territorial, divisional; local, home, independent; topical, topographic, topographical.
2. rural, bucolic, country, countrified, small-town, Inf. one-horse, Inf. jerkwater, SI. hick-town, SI. hick; hinterland, backwood or backwoods, backwater; hillbilly, hill-country; rustic, downhome, homegrown, domestic; unsophisticated, unpolished, rude, unrefined, gauche, ungraceful, gawky; rough, hayseed, yokelish, clodhopping, clodish, oafish, awkward, boorish, loutish, churlish; umraveled, home-town, ingrown.
3. narrow, insular, locked-in, illiberal, hidebound, purblind, deaf to reason; rigid, inflexible, set in one's ways; stiff-necked, intolerant, narrow-minded, closed-minded, bigoted, prejudiced, partial, one-sided; parochial, creed-bound, dogmatic, opinionated, ex parte, fanatical.
-n. 4. peasant, farmer, country cousin or bumpkin, SI. hayseed, SI. rube, SI. hick, SI. hick from Hicksville, SI. okie from Muskogee,
provincialism, n. 1. regionalism, idiom, localism; dialect, patois; local habit or custom, idiosyncrasy, trait, characteristic, earmark, distinctive feature, Inf. giveaway or dead giveaway.
2. narrowness, bias, bent, leaning, colored or slanted view, partiality, prepossession, arbitrariness, onesidedness, jingoism, patriotism, chauvinism, parochialism, cliquishness; illiberality, intolerance.
3. ignorance, unawareness, unenlightenment, benightedness, want or lack of knowledge or experience; innocence, simplicity, inexperience, greenness; denseness, thickness, stolidness, dumbness.
provision, n. 1. proviso, stipulation, condition, clause, term, specification, given; restriction, limitation, qualification, Inf. catch, Inf. string, Inf. small or fine print; reservation, exemption, exception; requisite, prerequisite, obligation.
2. supply, supplying, providing, accouterment, furnishing, furnishment; equipment, equipping, outfitting, fitting out, rigging up; giving, bestowal, endowment, donation, donating; purveyance, purveying, catering, victualing.
3. prearrangement, forearming, prior measures or steps, provident steps or measures; organization, arrangement; deliberation, predeliberation, calculation, premeditation, preconsideration; adjustment, adaptation.
4. wherewithal, means, resources, material, materials; equipment, equipage, matdriel; apparatus, gear, machinery.
5. stock, store, supply, quantity, fund, lot, Chiefly U.S. Dial, grist; reserve, reservoir; stockpile, collection, cache, hoard, amassment, accumulation; inventory, supply on hand; resources, wealth, savings, capital, nest egg; abundance, plenty, plenitude, cornucopia; treasure, mine, quarry, well; lode, bed, vein; heap, pile, mass, stack, load.
6. provisions food, foodstuff, provender, edibles, eatables, victuals, Inf. vittles, comestibles, viands, board; staples, sustenance, subsistence, Fig. bread, Fig. daily bread, Fig. staff of life; forage, feed, fodder;
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