nonprovincial

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ provincial

Adjective[edit]

nonprovincial (not comparable)

  1. Not restricted to a small region; not done in isolation.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:
      Whatever utility the work may have outside of its stated boundaries will be largely because of such a nonprovincial approach.